Intracellular polyamines enhance astrocytic coupling

NeuroReport

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1021-1025

  Benedikt, Jan ^a   Inyushin, Mikhail ^a   Kucheryavykh, Yuriy V ^a   Rivera, Yomarie ^a   Kucheryavykh, Lilia Y ^a   Nichols, Colin G ^b   Eaton, Misty J ^a   Skatchkov, Serguei N ^a  

^a Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine   (Puerto Rico)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

astrocyte coupling; dye propagation; gap junction channels; polyamines; spermine

Indexed keywords

LUCIFER YELLOW; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPREADING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LONGEVITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNCYTIUM;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXIN 43; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GAP JUNCTIONS; GIANT CELLS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; ISOQUINOLINES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

EID: 84869507844     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32835aa04b     Document Type: Article

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