Connexin 43
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Subject Areas on Research
- Adrenomedullin improves fertility and promotes pinopodes and cell junctions in the peri-implantation endometrium.
- Astrocytic CX43 hemichannels and gap junctions play a crucial role in development of chronic neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.
- Cardiac fibroblast paracrine factors alter impulse conduction and ion channel expression of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes.
- Changes in anisotropic conduction caused by remodeling cell size and the cellular distribution of gap junctions and Na(+) channels.
- Combined PI3K/Akt and Smad2 Activation Promotes Corneal Endothelial Cell Proliferation.
- Common genetic variation near the connexin-43 gene is associated with resting heart rate in African Americans: a genome-wide association study of 13,372 participants.
- Connexin 43 Mediates White Adipose Tissue Beiging by Facilitating the Propagation of Sympathetic Neuronal Signals.
- Connexin-43 induces chemokine release from spinal cord astrocytes to maintain late-phase neuropathic pain in mice.
- Differential expression of hippocampal connexins after acute hypoxia in the developing brain.
- Effect of the isoflavone genistein against galactose-induced cataracts in rats.
- Engineering prokaryotic channels for control of mammalian tissue excitability.
- HepaCAM controls astrocyte self-organization and coupling.
- Identification and requirements of enhancers that direct gene expression during zebrafish fin regeneration.
- Integrating genetic, transcriptional, and functional analyses to identify 5 novel genes for atrial fibrillation.
- Prolonged dark adaptation changes connexin expression in the mouse retina.
- Rapid fusion between mesenchymal stem cells and cardiomyocytes yields electrically active, non-contractile hybrid cells.
- Role of an alternatively spliced form of alphaII-spectrin in localization of connexin 43 in cardiomyocytes and regulation by stress-activated protein kinase.
- Sex-Dependent Glial Signaling in Pathological Pain: Distinct Roles of Spinal Microglia and Astrocytes.
- Size and ionic currents of unexcitable cells coupled to cardiomyocytes distinctly modulate cardiac action potential shape and pacemaking activity in micropatterned cell pairs.
- Structural coupling of cardiomyocytes and noncardiomyocytes: quantitative comparisons using a novel micropatterned cell pair assay.
- Targeted activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase in vivo induces restrictive cardiomyopathy and conduction defects.
- Tissue engineering of functional cardiac muscle: molecular, structural, and electrophysiological studies.
- Up-regulation of connexin45 in heart failure.
- c-Jun N-terminal kinase activation mediates downregulation of connexin43 in cardiomyocytes.
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Keywords of People
- Bursac, Nenad, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering