Gap junctions couple astrocytes and oligodendrocytes

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-116

  Orthmann Murphy, Jennifer L ^a,c   Abrams, Charles K ^b   Scherer, Steven S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexins; Gap junctions; Glia; K+ buffering; Myelin

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 29; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 47; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN; PROTEOLIPID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BUFFER; ISOPROTEIN; POTASSIUM;

ASTROCYTE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VACUOLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHANNEL GATING; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; GRAY MATTER; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; OCULODENTODIGITAL SYNDROME; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PELIZAEUS MERZBACHER DISEASE; POTASSIUM CELL LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SYNCYTIUM; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; CELL JUNCTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBER; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; BUFFERS; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MYELIN SHEATH; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 45949111111     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-007-9027-5     Document Type: Review

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