Gap junctions contain different amounts of cholesterol which undergo unique sequestering processes during fiber cell differentiation in the embryonic chicken lens

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 345-359

  Biswas, Sondip K ^a   Lo, Woo Kuen ^a,b  

^a MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FILIPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOCHEMISTRY; EMBRYO; ENDOCYTOSIS; FREEZE FRACTURE; GAP JUNCTION; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PLAQUE FORMING CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHOLESTEROL; CONNEXINS; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; EYE PROTEINS; FILIPIN; FREEZE FRACTURING; GAP JUNCTIONS; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE;

EID: 33847777225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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