background: gap-junctional intercellular communication (gjic) is implicated in physicological processes and it is vitally important for granulosa cell (gc) differentiation and oocyte growth. we investigated the expression of connexin 43 (cx43), a gap junctional protein, in normal and androstenedione-induced polycystic ovary (pco), the effects of androstenedione on cx43 expression, gjic and prog...

Communication plays an important role in the rapid Connexin Structure progress of modern society. We live in an age when Gap junctions exhibit a hierarchy of assembly. The prininformation is transmitted through many different pathcipal structural component, the membrane protein conways and in many different forms to influence our daily nexin, is organized into the basic unit of structure, the d...

Mouse and monkey adrenal glands were used to study the relationships between gap junction protein expression, intercellular communication and adrenal zonation. Dye communication patterns were determined by incubating freshly excised and hemisected adrenal glands in Lucifer yellow, a gap junction permeable fluorescent dye. Immunohistochemical techniques were used to localize adrenal gap junction...

Gap junction-mediated communication can modulate cell death in different tissues. In myocardium, gap junction communication is altered during ischemia, which contributes to the development of arrhythmias, but still allows synchronization of the onset of rigor contracture in the progression of injury. During reperfusion, gap junction communication allows cell-to-cell spread of hypercontracture a...

Diese Dissertation ist auf dem Hochschulschriftenserver der ULB Bonn unter junction communication and paracrine signaling pathways during organogenesis in Drosophila. (2006). DE-cadherin, a core component of the adherens junction complex modifies subcellular localization of the Drosophila gap junction protein innexin2. Intercellular communication: the Drosophila innexin multiprotein family of g...

Introduction: Gap junctions are specialized cell–cell contacts between eukaryotic cells through which they communicate. This type of communication has the potential to modulate memory process. We evaluated the effects of the gating of the hippocampal CA1 area gap junction channels on memory consolidation, using passive avoidance task. Materials and Methods: 72 adult male Wistar rats were distri...

Epithelial, fibroblast and intermediate cell lines were employed to examine the mechanism(s) essential for heterocellular gap junction intercellular communication in vitro. These cell lines were characterized extensively for cell type based on morphology, intermediate cytoskeletal proteins, cell adhesion molecules and their associated proteins, tight junction proteins as well as functional diff...