Physiological and molecular characterization of connexin hemichannels in zebrafish retinal horizontal cells

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2624-2632

  Sun, Ziyi ^a   Risner, Michael L ^a   van Asselt, Jorrit B ^b   Zhang, Dao Qi ^a   Kamermans, Maarten ^b   McMahon, Douglas G ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connexin; Horizontal cells; Oocyte; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN CONNEXIN 52.6; PROTEIN CONNEXIN 55.5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA HORIZONTAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONNEXINS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; GAP JUNCTIONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RETINAL HORIZONTAL CELLS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84861128126     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01126.2011     Document Type: Article

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