Expression of CONNEXIN43 Is Highly Sensitive to Ionizing Radiation and Other Environmental Stresses

Cancer Research

Volumn 63, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 7128-7135

  Azzam, Edouard I ^a,b   De Toledo, Sonia M ^a,b   Little, John B ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TERT BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE;

ALPHA RADIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIPLOIDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GAMMA RADIATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERPHOSPHORYLATION; HYPERTHERMIA; IONIZING RADIATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA PARTICLES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; FIBROBLASTS; GAMMA RAYS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LINDANE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RATS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0242442576     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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