Gap junction disappearance in astrocytes and leptomeningeal cells as a consequence of protozoan infection

Brain Research

Volumn 790, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 304-314

  De Campos Carvalho, Antonio C ^a,b   Roy, Christine ^a   Hertzberg, Elliot L ^a   Tanowitz, Herbert B ^a   Kessler, John A ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^a   Wittner, Murray ^a   Dermietzel, Rolf ^c   Gao, Yang ^a   Spray, David C ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin; Cx26; Cx43; Dye coupling; Glia; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Trypomosama cruzi

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN INFECTION; CELL COMMUNICATION; GAP JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNOID; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; ISOQUINOLINES; PIA MATER; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL;

EID: 0345019937     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01523-0     Document Type: Article

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