Connexin32 protects against vascular inflammation by modulating inflammatory cytokine expression by endothelial cells

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 317, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 348-355

  Okamoto, Takayuki ^a   Akiyama, Mari ^a   Takeda, Mariko ^a   Akita, Nobuyuki ^a   Yoshida, Kakunoshin ^a   Hayashi, Tatsuya ^a,b   Suzuki, Koji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE PREFECTURAL COLLEGE OF NURSING   (Japan)

Author keywords

Connexin 32; Endothelial cells; Gap junctions; Inflammatory cytokine; Vascular inflammation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR INFLAMMATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UMBILICAL VEIN; WILD TYPE;

MUS;

EID: 78650073116     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: 10902422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2010.10.018     Document Type: Article

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