Neuronal gap junctions play a role in the secondary neuronal death following controlled cortical impact

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 524, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-19

  Belousov, Andrei B ^a   Wang, Yongfu ^a   Song, Ji Hoon ^a   Denisova, Janna V ^a   Berman, Nancy E ^a   Fontes, Joseph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 36; Gap junctions; Glutamate; Neuronal death; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MEFLOQUINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL DEATH; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 84864631465     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.06.065     Document Type: Article

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