Upregulation and maintenance of gap junctional communication in lens cells

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 919-927

  Boswell, Bruce A ^a   Le, Anh Chi N ^b   Musil, Linda S ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

connexin; ERK; gap junctions; lens; proteasome

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; CONNEXIN 43; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GAP JUNCTIONS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; TRANSFECTION; UBIQUITIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 64749117042     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.11.031     Document Type: Article

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