Cultured periodontal ligament fibroblasts express diverse connexins

Tissue and Cell

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 375-380

  Yamaoka, Yuji ^a   Sawa, Yoshihiko ^a   Ebata, Noriyuki ^a   Ibuki, Naoko ^a   Yoshida, Shigemitsu ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connexin; Fibroblast; Periodontal ligament

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 26 ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 32 ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 37 ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 40 ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 43 ANTIBODY; CONNEXIN 45; CONNEXIN 45 ANTIBODY; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT; PERMEABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0036908413     PISSN: 00408166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040816602000381     Document Type: Article

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