Primary cultures of chick osteocytes retain functional gap junctions between osteocytes and between osteocytes and osteoblasts

Microscopy and Microanalysis

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 108-117

  Kamioka, Hiroshi ^a   Ishihara, Yoshihito ^a   Ris, Hans ^b   Murshid, Sakhr A ^a   Sugawara, Yasuyo ^a   Takano Yamamoto, Teruko ^a   Lim, Soo Siang ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dye coupling; FRAP; Gap junctions; Intercellular communication; Osteoblasts; Osteocytes

Indexed keywords

18ALPHA GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; 18ALPHA-GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; CONNEXIN 43; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; LUCIFER YELLOW; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKULL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONNEXIN 43; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; ISOQUINOLINES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; SKULL;

EID: 34247337704     PISSN: 14319276     EISSN: 14358115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S143192760707016X     Document Type: Article

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