Association of connexin36 and zonula occludens-1 with zonula occludens-2 and the transcription factor zonula occludens-1-associated nucleic acid-binding protein at neuronal gap junctions in rodent retina

Neuroscience

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 433-451

  Ciolofan, C ^a   Li, X B ^a   Olson, C ^a   Kamasawa, N ^b   Gebhardt, B R ^b   Yasumura, T ^b   Morita, M ^b   Rash, J E ^b   Nagy, J I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

electrical synapses; gap junctions; neurons; PDZ domains; scaffolding proteins

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; RETINA; RODENT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL MEMBRANE; CONNEXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEURONS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 33646495062     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.02.032     Document Type: Article

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