Innexins get into the gap

BioEssays

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 388-396

  Phelan, Pauline ^a   Starich, Todd A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONNEXINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, INSECT; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; ION CHANNELS; MUTATION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035012765     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.1057     Document Type: Review

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