Presence of connexin 43 in subsarcolemmal, but not in interfibrillar cardiomyocyte mitochondria

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-147

  Boengler, Kerstin ^a   Stahlhofen, Sabine ^a   Sand, Anita ^a   Gres, Petra ^a   Ruiz Meana, Marisol ^b   Garcia Dorado, David ^b   Heusch, Gerd ^a   Schulz, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Ischemic preconditioning; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL RESPIRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; HEART PROTECTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CONNEXIN 43; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING, MYOCARDIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOCHONDRIA, HEART; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SARCOLEMMA;

EID: 62249090215     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: 14351803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00395-009-0007-5     Document Type: Article

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