Connexin43 remodeling caused by inhibition of plakophilin-2 expression in cardiac cells

Circulation Research

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 703-711

  Oxford, Eva M ^a   Musa, Hassan ^a   Maass, Karen ^a   Coombs, Wanda ^a   Taffet, Steven M ^a   Delmar, Mario ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; Connexin43; Gap junction; Plakophilin 2

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; PLAKOPHILIN; PLAKOPHILIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; EPICARDIUM; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PLAKOPHILINS; RATS;

EID: 34848820956     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.107.154252     Document Type: Article

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