Connexin31 cannot functionally replace connexin43 during cardiac morphogenesis in mice

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 693-701

  Zheng Fischhöfer, Qingyi ^a   Ghanem, Alexander ^b   Kim, Jung Sun ^c   Kibschull, Mark ^d   Schwarz, Gaby ^a   Schwab, Jörg O ^b   Nagy, James ^e   Winterhager, Elke ^d   Tiemann, Klaus ^b   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Compartment; Connexin; Coupling; Gap junction; Knock in mice; Low voltage QRS complex; Subpulmonary outlet

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 43; CRE RECOMBINASE; GENOMIC DNA; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QRS COMPLEX; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SURVIVAL RATE; TROPHOBLAST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGANOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645095705     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02800     Document Type: Article

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