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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Stefan Dhein (auth)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Aida Salameh (auth), Katja Blanke (auth)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου
• Γλώσσα: Αγγλικά
• Έκδοση: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Σειρά: Frontiers Research Topics
• Θέματα: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; development; differentiation; Growth; pannexins; intercellular communication; hemichannels; Connexins; gap junction; Pharmacology; human diseases
• Διαθέσιμο Online: 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...