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

• Main Author: Stefan Dhein (auth)
• Other Authors: Aida Salameh (auth), Katja Blanke (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; development; differentiation; Growth; pannexins; intercellular communication; hemichannels; Connexins; gap junction; Pharmacology; human diseases
• Online Access: 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...