Loss of gap junctional intercellular communication in rat lung epithelial cells exposed to quartz particles

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-47

  Ale Agha, Niloofar ^a   Albrecht, Catrin ^a   Klotz, Lars Oliver ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Connexin; Gap junction; Lung epithelial cells; Quartz particles

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CONNEXIN 43; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; LUNG; PHOSPHORYLATION; QUARTZ; RATS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349959760     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.09.057     Document Type: Article

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