Endothelial cell-to-cell junctions: Molecular organization and role in vascular homeostasis

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 869-901

  Bazzoni, Gianfranco ^a   Dejana, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFADIN; CADHERIN; CASEIN KINASE II; CATENIN; CELL PROTEIN; CLAUDIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; JUNCTIONAL ADHESION MOLECULE A; NECTIN; OCCLUDIN; PDZ PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN SH2; PROTEIN SH3; PROTEIN ZO1; PROTEIN ZO2; PROTEIN ZO3; TJ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL POLARITY; CONTACT INHIBITION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TIGHT JUNCTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 3042590902     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00035.2003     Document Type: Review

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