Emerging complexities in identity and function of glial connexins

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 188-195

  Theis, Martin ^a,b   Söhl, Goran ^a   Eiberger, Jürgen ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 29; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 47; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADHESION; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DEPOLARIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; GROWTH REGULATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; SYNCYTIUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 15944387795     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2005.02.006     Document Type: Review

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