Claudins: Unlocking the code to tight junction function during embryogenesis and in disease

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 314-325

  Gupta, I R ^a   Ryan, A K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Claudin; Embryogenesis; Epithelial cells; Paracellular transport; Tight junction

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; CLAUDIN 1; CLAUDIN 11; CLAUDIN 14; CLAUDIN 16; CLAUDIN 19; CLAUDIN 2; CLAUDIN 4; CLAUDIN 5; CLAUDIN 6; CLAUDIN 7; CLAUDIN 8; PROTEIN KINASE WNK1; PROTEIN KINASE WNK4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CROHN DISEASE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM BALANCE; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CLAUDINS; DISEASE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77951745982     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: 13990004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01397.x     Document Type: Article

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