Role of connexins in human congenital heart disease: The chicken and egg problem

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 4 JUN, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Salameh, Aida ^a   Blanke, Katja ^a   Daehnert, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac malformations; Cardiac morphogenesis; Connexin; Gap junction; Mutation

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 40; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CHICKEN; CHILD DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CX43 GENE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EGG; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GENE MUTATION; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; GROWTH DISORDER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSISTENT TRUNCUS ARTERIOSUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SHONE ANOMALY; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84881646709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2013.00070     Document Type: Review

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