Chapter 25: Gap Junctions in Inflammatory Responses: Connexins, Regulation and Possible Functional Roles

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Volumn 49, Issue C, 1999, Pages 555-579

  Sáez, Juan C ^a   Araya, Roberto ^a   Brañes, María C ^a   Concha, Miguel ^b   Contreras, Jorge E ^a   Eugenín, Eliseo A ^a   Martinez, Agustín D ^a   Palisson, Francis ^a   Sepúlveda, Manuel A ^c  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2161(08)61029-1     Document Type: Article

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