Animal cells connected by nanotubes can be electrically coupled through interposed gap-junction channels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 17194-17199

  Wang, Xiang ^a   Veruki, Margaret Lin ^a   Bukoreshtliev, Nickolay V ^a   Hartveit, Espen ^a   Gerdes, Hans Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CONNEXIN 43; F ACTIN; MECLOFENAMIC ACID; MIBEFRADIL; NANOTUBE; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WHOLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CONNEXIN 43; ELECTRICITY; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; NANOTUBES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78049255782     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006785107     Document Type: Article

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