Quantification of gap junctional intercellular communication based on digital image analysis

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hofgaard, Johannes P ^a   Mollerup, Sarah ^a   Holstein Rathlou, Niels Henrik ^a   Nielsen, Morten Schak ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Connexin; Dye transfer; Electroporation; Gap junction

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENCE; GAP JUNCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DEXTRANS; ELECTROPORATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; ISOQUINOLINES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROGLIA; OCTANOLS; RATS; SOFTWARE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 68049096285     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00089.2009     Document Type: Article

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