Gap-junction-mediated cell-to-cell communication

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-31

  Hervé, Jean Claude ^a   Derangeon, Mickaël ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b L INSTITUT DU THORAX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Connexin; Electrical synapse; Gap junction; Innexin; Pannexin

Indexed keywords

CALMODULIN; CONNEXIN 43; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN; PANNEXIN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONNEXINS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS;

INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875239979     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1485-6     Document Type: Review

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