The Caenorhabditis elegans innexin INX-3 is localized to gap junctions and is essential for embryonic development

Developmental Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 403-417

  Starich, Todd A ^a   Miller, Agnes ^b   Nguyen, Rachel L ^a   Hall, David H ^b   Shaw, Jocelyn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Development; Gap junctions; Innexins; Morphogenesis

Indexed keywords

INNEXIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HESPERIA COMMA BOREALIS; HYPODERRIS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345505282     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00116-1     Document Type: Article

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