Gap junctions and Bystander effects: Good Samaritans and executioners

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Membrane Transport and Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Spray, David C ^a   Hanstein, Regina ^a   Lopez Quintero, Sandra V ^a   Stout, Randy F ^a   Suadicani, Sylvia O ^a   Thi, Mia M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM ION; CHAPERONE; CONNEXIN 36; CONNEXIN 43; CYCLIC AMP; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INOSITOL TRISPHOSPHATE;

APOPTOSIS; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KILLING; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; GAP JUNCTION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUICIDE GENE;

EID: 84879192764     PISSN: 2190460X     EISSN: 21904618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wmts.72     Document Type: Review

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