Gap junctional communication in health and disease
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Gap junctional communication in health and disease
Gap junctions (GJ) provide intercellular communication in all multicellular animal species, being as evolutionary distant as worm and men. In the traditional view GJs are known as specialized cell junctions forming communicating channels connecting the cytoplasm of adjacent cells. In almost all tissues GJ coupled cells can rapidly exchange ions, nutrients, or small metabolites to establish elec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Physiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1664-042X
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00442