Connexins in wound healing; Perspectives in diabetic patients

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes

Volumn 1818, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2068-2075

  Becker, David L ^a   Thrasivoulou, Christopher ^a   Phillips, Anthony R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CoDa Therapeutics Inc ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Connexin 43; Diabetic foot ulcer; Gap junction; Nexagon; Venous leg ulcer; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 31.1; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; PEPTIDE ACT1; PEPTIDE GAP26; PEPTIDE GAP27; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; PROTEIN ZO1; STREPTOZOCIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC ULCER; DRUG MECHANISM; EPIDERMIS; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SCAR; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; ULCER; ULCER HEALING; WOUND; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; DERMIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDERMIS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATS; SKIN DISEASES; WOUND HEALING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84861583607     PISSN: 00052736     EISSN: 18792642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.11.017     Document Type: Review

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