Loss of gap junctional intercellular communication in rat lung epithelial cells exposed to carbon or silica-based nanoparticles

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 391, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1333-1339

  Ale Agha, Niloofar ^a   Albrecht, Catrin ^a   Klotz, Lars Oliver ^a,b  

^a IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

catenin; connexin 43; lung epithelial cells; nanoparticles; stress signaling; ultrafine carbon black

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; BETA CATENIN; CARBON; CONNEXIN 43; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NANOPARTICLE; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GAP JUNCTION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BETA CATENIN; CARBON; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; ISOQUINOLINES; LUNG; NANOPARTICLES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SILICON DIOXIDE;

RATTUS;

EID: 78649353650     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2010.133     Document Type: Article

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