Connexin 43 acts as a cytoprotective mediator of signal transduction by stimulating mitochondrial KATP channels in mouse cardiomyocytes

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1441-1453

  Rottlaender, Dennis ^a   Boengler, Kerstin ^b   Wolny, Martin ^a   Michels, Guido ^a   Endres Becker, Jeannette ^a   Motloch, Lukas J ^a   Schwaiger, Astrid ^a   Buechert, Astrid ^a   Schulz, Rainer ^b   Heusch, Gerd ^b   Hoppe, Uta C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM); CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 43; DIAZOXIDE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOPROTECTION; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NECROSIS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN KINASE C; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77951850832     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI40927     Document Type: Article

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