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Connexin43 null mice reveal that astrocytes express multiple connexins.
Brain research. Brain research reviews - 1 Apr 2000
Dermietzel R, Gao Y, Scemes E, Vieira D, Urban M, Kremer M, Bennett M V, Spray D C
Abstract excerpt
The gap junction protein connexin43 (Cx43) is the primary component of intercellular channels in cardiac tissue and in astrocytes, the most abundant type of glial cells in the brain. Mice in which the gene for Cx43 is deleted by homologous recombination die at birth, due to profound hypertrophy o...
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