The Complex of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor-Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Receptor Up-Regulates Connexin43 and Intercellular Coupling in Astrocytes via the Janus Tyrosine Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Pathway□D
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*Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; †Canadian Institutes of Health Research Group in Skeletal Development and Remodeling, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario V6T 1Z3, Canada; and ‡Laboratory of Developmental Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8019
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