Functions of claudin tight junction proteins and their complex interactions in various physiological systems

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 279, Issue C, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Elkouby Naor, Liron ^a   Ben Yosef, Tamar ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Claudin; Membrane proteins; Tight junction proteins; Tight junctions

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; COXSACKIE VIRUS AND ADENOVIRUS RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BOOK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOSKELETON; DEHYDRATION; EPIDERMIS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERCALCIURIA; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; MALE STERILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STOICHIOMETRY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

EID: 77957921618     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1937-6448(10)79001-8     Document Type: Article

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