Connexon-mediated cell adhesion drives microtissue self-assembly

FASEB Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 255-264

  Bao, Brian ^a   Jiang, Jean ^b   Yanase, Toshihiko ^b   Nishi, Yoshihiro ^b   Morgan, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

3D; Aggregation; Gap junction; Spheroid

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CONNEXON 43; HEPTANOL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL KINETICS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRAIN MCF 7; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME METABOLISM; FIBROBLAST; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; TUMOR SEEDING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CADHERINS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXIN 43; FIBROBLASTS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEPTANOL; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79251572022     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.10-155291     Document Type: Article

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