Cardiac gap junction channels: modulation of expression and channel properties
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Cardiac gap junction channels: modulation of expression and channel properties.
In the heart, intercellular gap junction channels constructed from connexin molecules are crucial for conduction of the electric impulse. Cardiomyocytes can be interconnected by channels composed of three types of connexin proteins: Cx40, Cx43 or Cx45. In mammalian hearts, these three isoforms are regionally differently expressed and even between the species differences exist. Each of these cha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cardiovascular Research
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0008-6363
DOI: 10.1016/s0008-6363(01)00324-8