Stress-induced intercellular communication remodeling in the rat adrenal medulla

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 106-111

  Colomer, Claude ^a   Lafont, Chrystel ^a   Guérineau, Nathalie C ^a,b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b Department of Endocrinology ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Acute rat adrenal slices; Chromaffin cell excitability; Cold exposure; Dye transfer; Gap junctional coupling; Intercellular communication; Synaptic currents

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; LUCIFER YELLOW;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; MALE; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPLANCHNIC NERVE; STRESS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UPREGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649165540     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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