Gap Junction Remodeling in the Failing Heart: Different Connexins - Different Message?

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1213-1214

  Delmar, Mario ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HIS BUNDLE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PURKINJE FIBER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADULT; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; UP-REGULATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0344010971     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2003.03416.x     Document Type: Note

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