Making connexons in the neurovascular unit

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1455-1456

  Drewes, Lester R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; BETA DYSTROGLYCAN; CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROVASCULAR UNIT; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERICYTE; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS;

EID: 84864569389     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.44     Document Type: Note

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