The conditional connexin43G138R mouse mutant represents a new model of hereditary oculodentodigital dysplasia in humans

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 539-554

  Dobrowolski, Radoslaw ^a   Sasse, Philipp ^a   Schrickel, Jan W ^a   Watkins, Marcus ^b   Kim, Jung Sun ^c   Rackauskas, Mindaugas ^d   Troatz, Clemens ^a   Ghanem, Alexander ^a   Tiemann, Klaus ^a   Degen, Joachim ^a   Bukauskas, Feliksas F ^d   Civitelli, Roberto ^b   Lewalter, Thorsten ^a   Fleischmann, Bernd K ^a   Willecke, Klaus ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENAMEL HYPOPLASIA; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OCULODENTODIGITAL SYNDROME; PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNDACTYLY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BASE SEQUENCE; CONNEXIN 43; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FINGERS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HELA CELLS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNDACTYLY; SYNDROME; TOES; TOOTH ABNORMALITIES;

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EID: 38849142479     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm329     Document Type: Article

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