Pharmacological properties of homomeric and heteromeric pannexin hemichannels expressed in Xenopus oocytes

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1033-1043

  Bruzzone, Roberto ^a,b   Barbe, Michael T ^b   Jakob, Nurith J ^b   Monyer, Hannah ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbenoxolone; Connexin; Electrical synapses; Flufenamic acid; Gap junction; Gating

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 46; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; GLYCYRRHIZA EXTRACT; PANNEXIN; PANNEXIN 1; PANNEXIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNAPSE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONNEXINS; DIMERIZATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROINJECTIONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 14844334146     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02947.x     Document Type: Article

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