Stimulation of gap junctional intercellular communication by thalidomide and thalidomide analogs in human fetal skin fibroblasts (HFFF2) and in rat liver epithelial cells (WB-F344)

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1081-1086

  Onat, Duygu ^a   Stahl, Wilhelm ^a   Sies, Helmut ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gap junctions; Human fetal skin fibroblasts (HFFF2); Intercellular communication; Rat liver epithelial cells (WB F344); Teratogen; Thalidomide

Indexed keywords

2 (2,6 DIOXO 3 PIPERIDINYL)PHTHALIMIDINE; 2 (2,6 DIOXO 4 PIPERIDINYL)PHTHALIMIDINE; EM 138; EM 20; EM 364; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; RETINOIC ACID; THALIDOMIDE; THALIDOMIDE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COENZYMES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FETUS; FIBROBLASTS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SKIN; THALIDOMIDE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035501486     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-2952(01)00751-1     Document Type: Article

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