Article
Diversity and molecular anatomy of gap junctions.
Medical electron microscopy : official journal of the Clinical Electron Microscopy Society of Japan - 1 Sept 2001
Shibata Y, Kumai M, Nishii K, Nakamura K
Abstract excerpt
In animal tissues, most cells are connected via intercellular cytoplasmic channels called gap junctions. Various electron microscopy techniques have made a crucial contribution to our understanding of the function and structure of gap junction channels. Tracer studies and freeze-fracture replica observations indicate that the connexon, the unit gap junction channel, is a pair of hemichannels apposed in the narrow...
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