High-level connexin expression in the human juxtaglomerular apparatus

Nephron - Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kurtz, Lisa ^a,d   Madsen, Kirsten ^b   Kurt, Birgül ^a   Jensen, Boye L ^b   Walter, Steen ^c   Banas, Bernhard ^a   Wagner, Charlotte ^a   Kurtz, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connexin; Gap junction; Juxtaglomerular apparatus; Renin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM; GAP JUNCTION; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JUXTAGLOMERULAR APPARATUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGED; ANIMALS; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JUXTAGLOMERULAR APPARATUS; KIDNEY CORTEX; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; NEPHRECTOMY; RATS; RENIN;

EID: 77953124681     PISSN: 16602137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000315658     Document Type: Article

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