Connexins, gap junctional intercellular communication and kinases

Biology of the Cell

Volumn 94, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 433-443

  Cruciani, Véronique ^a   Mikalsen, Svein Ole ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Connexins; Gap junctions; Intercellular communication; Kinases; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CYCLE; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036872373     PISSN: 02484900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0248-4900(02)00014-X     Document Type: Review

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