Reorganization of gap junctions after focused ultrasound blood-brain barrier opening in the rat brain

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1394-1402

  Alonso, Angelika ^a   Reinz, Eileen ^b   Jenne, Jürgen W ^a   Fatar, Marc ^a   Schmidt Glenewinkel, Hannah ^b   Hennerici, Michael G ^a   Meairs, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

blood brain barrier; Connexin 36; Connexin 43; gap junctions; microbubbles; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 43; PERFLUTREN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HEMISPHERE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; ULTRASOUND; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 77954243074     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.41     Document Type: Article

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