Connexin distribution in the rabbit and rat ciliary body: A case for heterotypic epithelial gap junctions

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 341-348

  Wolosin, J Mario ^a   Schütte, Michael ^a   Chen, Shuhua ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ciliary body; connexin 43; connexin 50; gap junctions; heterotypic

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGENICITY; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL MEMBRANE; CELL JUNCTION; CILIARY BODY; CILIARY BODY EPITHELIUM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CILIARY BODY; CONNEXINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GAP JUNCTIONS; LIVER; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 1842369127     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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