Dilated bile canaliculi and attenuated decrease of nerve-dependent bile secretion in connexin32-deficient mouse liver

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 442, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 961-966

  Temme, Achim ^c   Stümpel, Frank ^b   Söhl, Goran ^a   Rieber, Ernst Peter ^c   Jungermann, Kurt ^b   Willecke, Klaus ^a   Ott, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bile flow; Cx26; Cx32; Gap junction; Liver

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 32;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILE FLOW; BILE SECRETION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILE; BILE CANALICULI; CONNEXINS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0034808213     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240100623     Document Type: Article

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