New roles for connexons

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 100-103

  Ebihara, Lisa ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE;

CELL MEMBRANE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; ION CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0038142399     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/nips.01431.2002     Document Type: Review

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