Relaxin favors the morphofunctional integration between skeletal myoblasts and adult cardiomyocytes in coculture

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 444-445

  Formigli, Lucia ^a   Francini, Fabio ^a   Chiappini, Laura ^a   Zecchi Orlandini, Sandra ^a   Bani, Daniele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Histology and Forensic Medicine ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiomyocyte; Cardiomyoplasty; Cell culture; Connexin43; Gap junction; Myoblast

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 43; LUCIFER YELLOW; RELAXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CARDIOMYOPLASTY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; COCULTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAP JUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 23644456567     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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