gap junctional intercellular communication
Biocompatibility of Various Kinds of Polymer Microspheres Estimated from Their Effect on Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication of Fibroblasts
... Gap junctional intercellular communication is a function that plays an important role in maintaining cell and tissue homeostasis and in regulating cell growth, development and ...both ...
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The bovine papillomavirus type 4 E8 protein binds to ductin and causes loss of gap junctional intercellular communication in primary fibroblasts.
... both gap junctions and vacuolar H 1 ...of gap junctional intercellular communication, and it is suggested that this results from the interaction between E8 and ...
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Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication Increases Cytotoxicity and Reduces Resistance to Hydroxyurea
... and gap junction-mediated transfer of apoptosis-inducing signals from damaged cells to ...via gap junction hemichannels, also contribute to these bystander effects ...Thus, gap junctions and ...
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Inhibition of gap junctional Intercellular communication in WB-F344 rat liver epithelial cells by triphenyltin chloride through MAPK and PI3-kinase pathways
... 43 (Cx43), a major gap junction protein, functions as a tumor suppressor gene. Expression of Cx43 is often decreased in human tumor cells and tissues, including those involved in human mammary carcinoma, prostate ...
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Modulation of Cx43 and Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication by Androstenedione in Rat Polycystic Ovary and Granulosa Cells in vitro
... Gap junctions form a network of bonded inter- connecting GCs that surround the oocyte, and the loss of these junctions may facilitate the dissoci- ation of the oocyte and disrupt normal folliculo- genesis. In ...
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Connexin 43 mediated gap junctional communication enhances breast tumor cell diapedesis in culture
... involves gap junctions [15-17]. Gap junctions are inter- cellular channels that mediate the direct intercellular exchange of secondary messengers, small metabolites or inorganic ions ...Cx26 ...
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All-trans retinoic acid arrests cell cycle in leukemic bone marrow stromal cells by increasing intercellular communication through connexin 43-mediated gap junction
... GJIC: gap junctional intercellular communication; LCSM: laser confocal scanning microscope; LY: Lucifer yellow; MTT: methyl thiazolyl tetrazolium; qRT-PCR: quantitative reverse transcription ...
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Up Regulation of the Gap Junction Intercellular Communication by Tea Polyphenol in the Human Metastatie Lung Carcinoma Cell Line
... present communication was to investage the anti-proliferation effect of tea polyphenol on the PG cells, which was a high metastatic human lung carci- noma cell line, by ...
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7-Ketocholesterol modulates intercellular communication through gap-junction in bovine lens epithelial cells
... modulate gap junction intercellular com- munication, probably through a mechanism that involves stabilisation of Cx43 at the plasma ...increased intercellular communica- ...functional gap ...
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Inhibition of gap junction intercellular communication is involved in silica nanoparticles-induced H9c2 cardiomyocytes apoptosis via the mitochondrial pathway
... regulate gap junctional permeability and trafficking of signaling molecules between adjacent ...addition, gap junction and connexins have been reported to conduct both cell survival and cell death ...
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Defective regulation of gap junctional coupling in cystic fibrosis pancreatic duct cells
... junctional communication and Cl – secretion were concurrently regulated by cAMP in cells expressing ...whether intercellular communication and CFTR-dependent secretion are related, we have ...
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Oncogenic extracellular HSP70 disrupts the gap-junctional coupling between capillary cells
... used gap-FRAP ...the gap-junction intercellular communication (GJIC) between HMEC, disrupts the structural integrity of HMEC junction plaques, and decreases connexin43 (Cx43) expression, which ...
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Altered intercellular communication in lung fibroblast cultures from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
... cell-to-cell communication between phenotypically similar cells belonging to the same tissue or microscopic area, but adds nothing to the cell-to-cell communication taking place in the boundary between ...
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Connexin43 mediates direct intercellular communication in human osteoblastic cell networks
... Thus, intercellular coupling in normal and transformed human osteoblastic cells correlates with the level of expression of Cx43, which appears to mediate intercellular communication in these ...
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Gap junction intercellular communication pathways in normal and diseased human ventricular myocardium
... the gap junction content per myocyte in hypertrophied ventricular myocardium (from patients with aortic stenosis) was not significantly reduced, suggests that the reduction in gap junction content per cell ...
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Junctional communication of pancreatic β cells contributes to the control of insulin secretion and glucose tolerance
... other gap junction–permeant species that are critical for insulin ...The intercellular communication mediated by connexin channels provides a unique mechanism for the diffu- sion-driven exchange of ...
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Close the Gap : a study on the regulation of Connexin43 gap junctional communication
... of gap junctions are connexin ...short intercellular N-terminus, four transmem- brane domains and an intercellular C-terminal ...heart, gap junctional communication between ...
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Extracellular vesicles: masters of intercellular communication and potential clinical interventions
... Much of the research into intercellular communication via EVs has focused on their ability to regulate the immune system. EVs from both immune and nonimmune cells have been shown to either suppress or ...
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A transwell assay that excludes exosomes for assessment of tunneling nanotube-mediated intercellular communication
... based communication. The study was designed to estab- lish an “assay of exclusion” that ideally would leave only TNT-mediated communication remaining. We note that, based on prior studies and the current ...
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Bystander Attenuation of Neuronal and Astrocyte Intercellular Communication by Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection of Glia
... reduces intercellular communication both between astrocytes and between ...of intercellular glial signaling, which has been shown to play a substantive role in neurogen- esis ...
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