Innexins in C. elegans

Cell Communication and Adhesion

Volumn 8, Issue 4-6, 2001, Pages 311-314

  Starich, Todd ^a   Sheehan, Melissa ^a   Jadrich, Joy ^a   Shaw, Jocelyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Development; Electrical synapses; Gap junctions; Innexins; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INNEXIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA TRANSLATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035754497     PISSN: 10615385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15419060109080744     Document Type: Article

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