Gap junctions and blood-tissue barriers

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 763, Issue , 2013, Pages 260-280

  Li, Michelle W M ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Cheng, C Yan ^a  

^a Cent Biomed Res   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 46; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; BYSTANDER EFFECT; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL TYPE; DNA DAMAGE; ECZEMA; ENDOCYTOSIS; EPIDERMIS CELL; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 84934441243     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4711-5_13     Document Type: Article

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