Severe neuropathy with leaky connexin32 hemichannels

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 749-754

  Liang, Grace S Lin ^a,f   De Miguel, Marta ^b   Gómez Hernández, Juan M ^b   Glass, Jonathan D ^c   Scherer, Steven S ^a   Mintz, Mark ^d   Barrio, Luis C ^b   Fischbeck, Kenneth H ^e  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Research Hospital ^*  (Spain)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Bancroft Neurosciences Institute   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^f Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL SURVIVAL; CONNEXINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ION CHANNEL GATING; OOCYTES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELLS; XENOPUS;

EID: 18244399333     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20459     Document Type: Article

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