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Gap Junctions

Known as: macula communicans, Low-resistance Junction, Communicating cell junction 
A cell-cell junction that is composed of an array of small channels that permit small molecules to pass from one cell to another. At gap junctions… 
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
More than 130 different mutations in the gap junction integral plasma membrane protein connexin32 (Cx32) have been linked to the… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Several laboratories have demonstrated a decrease in gap junctional communication in cells transformed by the src oncogene of the… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
We have recently shown that adult canine ventricular myocytes express three distinct gap junction channel proteins, connexin40… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The connexins form a family of membrane spanning proteins that assemble into gap junction channels. The biophysical properties of… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Most, if not all, cancer cells have some dysfunction in gap-junction-mediated intercellular communication, either because of… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Intercellular communication via gap junctions, as measured by dye and electrical coupling, disappears within 12 h in primary rat… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Junctions between Xenopus laevis oocytes and follicle cells have been identified as gap junctions by the passage of microinjected… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Gap junctions were identified in the membrana granulosa and cumulus oophorus, and between cells of the internal theca, of the…