Altering electrical connections in the nervous system of the pteropod mollusc Clione limacina by neuronal injections of gap junction mRNA

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2475-2476

  Kelmanson, Ilya V ^a   Shagin, Dmitry A ^b   Usman, Natalia ^b   Matz, Mikhail V ^b,d   Lukyanov, Sergey A ^b   Panchin, Yury V ^a,c  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin; Gap junction; Innexin; Pannexin

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPHAPSE; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; INJECTION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLLUSC; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GAP JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036925923     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02423.x     Document Type: Article

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