Cardiac to cancer: Connecting connexins to clinical opportunity

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1349-1364

  Grek, Christina L ^a   Rhett, J Matthew ^b   Ghatnekar, Gautam S ^a  

^a FirstString Research Inc   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT1 peptide; Cancer; CNS; Connexin43; Gap junction; Purinergic; Therapeutic; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ACT1 PEPTIDE; CANCER; CNS; CONNEXIN43; GAP JUNCTION; PURINERGIC; THERAPEUTIC; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; SKIN DISEASES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84898886728     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.02.047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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