Functions of connexins and large pore channels on microglial cells: The gates to environment

Brain Research

Volumn 1487, Issue , 2012, Pages 16-24

  Mika, Thomas ^a   Prochnow, Nora ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CARBENOXOLONE; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; ION CHANNEL; IVERMECTIN; LARGE PORE CHANNEL; LIGAND; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PANNEXIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR; PURINERGIC P2X4 RECEPTOR; SUPEROXIDE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PHAGOCYTOSIS; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; CHANNEL GATING; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELL DEATH; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; CYTOKINES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; PAIN;

EID: 84869500260     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.07.020     Document Type: Review

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