Doubly mutant mice, deficient in connexin32 and -43, show normal prenatal development of organs where the two gap junction proteins are expressed in the same cells

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 5-12

  Houghton, Franchesca D ^a   Thönnissen, Eva ^b   Kidder, Gerald M ^a   Naus, Christian C G ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^b   Winterhager, Elke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin32; Connexin43; Double mutants; Gap junctions; Gene targeting; Organogenesis; 1 connexin; 1 connexin

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; STEM CELL; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0345561557     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1999)24:1/2<5::AID-DVG2>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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