gap junction

There was no association between gap junction frequency and age.

However, some gap junctions do allow for communication in only one direction.

Many new functions for gap junctions have been uncovered since those early years.

Since the 1970s gap junctions have continued to been found in nearly all animal cells that touch each other.

There are many gap junctions between the cells of fish double cones.

Channel composition is thought to influence the function of gap junction channels.

In the 1980s more subtle but no less important roles of gap junction communication have been investigated.

There is evidence associating it with Gap junction protein, alpha 1.

Gap junction channels are only found between cochlear supporting cells.

Later it was found that chemicals could also be transported between cells through gap junctions.

Embryos with areas of blocked gap junctions failed to develop normally.

Now systematic study and identification of the predominant gap junction protein became possible.

Innexin family members are the structural components of gap junctions.

Several human genetic disorders are associated with mutations in gap junction genes.

Hela cells were used in these studies because they have very little ability to communicate through gap junctions.

Today we know that this type of electrical interaction is mediated by gap junctions.

They are associated with the contractile smooth muscle via gap junctions.

Gap Junctions have been observed in various animal organs and tissues where cells contact each other.

Disease also seems to have an effect on the ability of gap junctions to fulfill their roles in wound healing.

It is likely this early work was already reflecting the presence of more than just connexins in gap junctions.

They are similar to gap junctions, connecting the cytosol of adjacent cells.

The criterion for a gap junction was a minimum of 20 membrane particles in a plaque.

These cytoplasmic processes are joined together by gap junctions.

Gap junctions are analogous to the plasmodesmata that join plant cells.

At least in some cases this may not be the case as shown in other muscle types that do have gap junctions.