Is half of a lens gap junction channel better than none? Focus on "properties of two cataract-associated mutations located in the NH2terminus of connexin 46"

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  White, Thomas W ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CONNEXIN 46;

CATARACT; EDITORIAL; GAP JUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE;

EID: 84878629372     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: 15221563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00035.2013     Document Type: Editorial

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