Connexin 43 Enhances the Adhesivity and Mediates the Invasion of Malignant Glioma Cells

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 4302-4311

  Lin, Jane H C ^a   Takano, Takahiro ^a   Cotrina, Maria Luisa ^a   Arcuino, Gregory ^a   Kang, Jian ^a   Liu, Shujun ^a   Gao, Qun ^a   Jiang, Li ^a   Li, Fanshu ^a   Lichtenberg Frate, Hella ^b   Haubrich, Sandra ^b   Willecke, Klaus ^b   Goldman, Steven A ^c   Nedergaard, Maiken ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Brain tumor; Bystander death; Cell motility; Gap junction; Rat

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 32; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CANCER CELL; CANCER INVASION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL INVASION; CELL MUTANT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA CELL; HOST CELL; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TUMOR CELL; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; GLIOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERMEABILITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036618222     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-11-04302.2002     Document Type: Article

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