Inhibition of Gap junction-mediated intercellular communication by TNF-α in cultured human corneal fibroblasts

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1195-1200

  Hao, Ji Long ^a   Suzuki, Katsuyoshi ^a   Lu, Ying ^a   Hirano, Shinji ^a   Fukuda, Ken ^a   Kumagai, Naoki ^a   Kimura, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishida, Teruo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOKERATIN; LUCIFER YELLOW; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIMENTIN; ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; DIFFUSION; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KERATITIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CELL CULTURE; CELL JUNCTION; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CORNEAL STROMA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOQUINOLINES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 18244400450     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0840     Document Type: Article

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