Mind the gap! Gap junction channels and their importance in pathogenesis

• Автор: Stefan Dhein (auth)
• Інші автори: Aida Salameh (auth), Katja Blanke (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Серія: Frontiers Research Topics
• Предмети: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; development; differentiation; Growth; pannexins; intercellular communication; hemichannels; Connexins; gap junction; Pharmacology; human diseases
• Онлайн доступ: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

"Cells live together, but die singly", this sentence wrote the German physiologist Theodor Engelmann in 1875 and although he had no particular knowledge of gap junction channels (their structure was discovered around 100 years later) he described their functions very well: gap junction cha...