cell-to-cell gap junction coupling
Cell cycle dependent regulation of gap junction coupling and apoptosis in GFSHR 17 granulosa cells
... of gap junc- tion coupling could modulate the induction of apopt- otic ...inhibited gap junction coup- ling and thereby promoted activation of characteris- tic apoptotic reactions such as ...
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Structure and function of gap junction proteins: role of gap junction proteins in embryonic heart development
... direct cell-to-cell communication via a family of proteins termed innexins, which play a Cx-like role, even though they lack primary amino acid sequence homology to Cxs (Phelan, 2005; Phelan and Starich, ...
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Gap junctions in Malpighian tubules of Aedes aegypti
... principal cell into neighboring cells ...electrical coupling (Tables ...insect gap junctions are thought to permit the passage of hydrophilic molecules up to 1200·Da (Simpson et ...principal ...
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Apigenin inhibits growth and motility but increases gap junctional coupling intensity in rat prostate carcinoma (MAT-LyLu) cell populations
... carcinoma cell populations as an efficient tool for the elucidation of the basic mechanisms of the chemopreventive action of ...of gap junction-mediated dye transfer in MAT-LyLu cell ...cancer ...
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A rapid and sensitive assay of intercellular coupling by voltage imaging of gap junction networks
... single cell electrophysiology, large – scale optical recordings and a digital phase – sensitive detector to extract signals with a known frequency from ...HeLa cell cultures confirmed that suitably encoded ...
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Laminin-332 alters connexin profile, dye coupling and intercellular Ca2+ waves in ciliated tracheal epithelial cells
... influence gap junctional communication in tracheal airway epithe- lial cells, we compared functional cell coupling after microinjection of tracer dyes into ciliated RTEC grown on matrices of collagen ...
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Astrocyte remodeling without gliosis precedes optic nerve axonopathy
... and gap-junction coupling ...the cell body [51]; astrocyte processes also may also fortify the edge of the nerve, as coverage in the cen- ter diminishes ...
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Electrophysiological behavior of neonatal astrocytes in hippocampal stratum radiatum
... Gap junction coupling has been shown to obscure the activation kinetics of intrinsic ionic conductances in ol- factory ensheathing cells (OECs), GFAP-expressing cells of the postnatal subventricular ...
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Connexin43 mediates direct intercellular communication in human osteoblastic cell networks
... examined cell coupling and expression of gap junction proteins in monolayer cultures of cells derived from human bone marrow stromal cells (BMC) and trabecular bone osteoblasts (HOB), and in ...
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Connexin 43 expression is associated with increased malignancy in prostate cancer cell lines and functions to promote migration
... the gap junction subunits that facilitate direct cell-cell communication, have been implicated in prostate cancer ...cancer cell lines across the spectrum of ...four cell lines, ...
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Visfatin reduces gap junction mediated cell to cell communication in proximal tubule derived epithelial cells
... modulate gap junction mediated cell-to-cell communication in the human proximal tubule, a process that may have implications for renal function ahead of overt changes that are central to the ...
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Intercellular calcium signaling in a gap junction coupled cell network establishes asymmetric neuronal fates in C elegans
... NSY-5 gap junctions transmit or modify calcium signals across the neural network, leading to differential regulation of calcium channel activity in the two AWC cells and the subsequent asymmetric differentiation ...
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Gap junction mediated cell to cell communication in bovine and human adrenal cells A process whereby cells increase their responsiveness to physiological corticotropin concentrations
... The cell-to-cell transfer of the probe was blocked by 18 alpha-glycyrrhetinic acid (GA), an inhibitor of gap junction-mediated intercellular ...low cell densities ...
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Coupling the cell cycle to development
... block cell cycle progression whenever replication forks are stalled or DNA is damaged, and ensures that progression resumes only after such problems have been ...prevent cell cycle progression by ...
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Up Regulation of the Gap Junction Intercellular Communication by Tea Polyphenol in the Human Metastatie Lung Carcinoma Cell Line
... PG cell effect, which role strengthen showed the dose-dependent ...PG cell growth cycle, which showed that in the tea polyphe- nols could increase PG cells in G0/G1 phase (block in G0/G1 phase), decreased ...
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Arf6-driven endocytic recycling of CD147 determines HCC malignant phenotypes
... key junction proteins were ...tight junction marker ZO-1 and the adheren junction marker E- cadherin ...the cell surface ...cancer cell adhesion, aggregation and junction ...
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1 Visualization of Annular Gap Junction Vesicle
... membrane, can be used to distinguish this vesicle from other cytoplasmic organelles. Localization of gap junction plaques and annular gap junction vesicles. A) Immunocytochemistry 96.. [r] ...
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The Interaction Between Quinine and Trimethylamine in the Formalin Test
... In the present study, the effects of quinine, a gap junction blocker, and TMA, a gap junction opener, were examined using the formalin test as a model of pain. Our results indicate that ...
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Exogenous Cx43 expression decrease cell proliferation rate in rat hepatocarcinoma cells independently of functional gap junction
... regulate cell proliferation, while the second and more recent view acknowledges the Cxs as proteins in their own right and mediate GJ-independent effects [18- ...hepatocarcinoma cell proliferation and ...
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The Cytoskeletal Mechanisms of Cell-Cell Junction formation in Endothelial Cells
... adherens junction, which would also target barbed end elongation to adhesion ...Regarding cell-cell junctions, this regulation may also affect myosin-X, a motor protein enriched at filopodial tips ...
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