Visualization and functional blocking of gap junction hemichannels (connexons) with antibodies against external loop domains in astrocytes

The Gap Junction Communication Channel

1996 • 1,896 citations

Glutamate Induces Calcium Waves in Cultured Astrocytes: Long-Range Glial Signaling

1990 • 1,820 citations

Connexin43: a protein from rat heart homologous to a gap junction protein from liver.

1987 • 1,111 citations

Gap junctions: New tools, new answers, new questions

1991 • 981 citations

Biochemical analysis of connexin43 intracellular transport, phosphorylation, and assembly into gap junctional plaques.

1991 • 705 citations

Connexin46, a novel lens gap junction protein, induces voltage-gated currents in nonjunctional plasma membrane of Xenopus oocytes.

1991 • 600 citations

Differential expression of three gap junction proteins in developing and mature brain tissues.

1989 • 537 citations

Gap junctions in the brain: where, what type, how many and why?

1993 • 513 citations

Calcium Waves in Retinal Glial Cells

1997 • 461 citations

Connexin32 is a myelin-related protein in the PNS and CNS

1995 • 411 citations

Gap junctions in cultured astrocytes: Single-channel currents and characterization of channel-forming protein

1991 • 360 citations

Inhibition of gap junction and adherens junction assembly by connexin and A-CAM antibodies.

1992 • 351 citations

Organization of actin in the leading edge of cultured cells: influence of osmium tetroxide and dehydration on the ultrastructure of actin meshworks.

1981 • 340 citations

Topology of the 32-kd liver gap junction protein determined by site-directed antibody localizations.

1988 • 327 citations

Properties and regulation of gap junctional hemichannels in the plasma membranes of cultured cells.

1996 • 327 citations

Calcium waves in astrocytes-filling in the gaps

1992 • 321 citations

Voltage gating and permeation in a gap junction hemichannel.

1996 • 304 citations

Gap junctions in the nervous system

2000 • 214 citations

Evidence that the gap junction protein connexin-43 is the ATP-induced pore of mouse macrophages

1991 • 195 citations

Molecular Cloning and Functional Expression of Mouse Connexin-30,a Gap Junction Gene Highly Expressed in Adult Brain and Skin

1996 • 181 citations

Volatile anesthetics block intercellular communication between neonatal rat myocardial cells.

1989 • 178 citations

Metabolic trafficking through astrocytic gap junctions

1997 • 167 citations

Identification of actin-, alpha-actinin-, and vinculin-containing plaques at the lateral membrane of epithelial cells.

1986 • 139 citations

Growth Cone Motility and Guidance

1988 • 134 citations

Gating of gap junction channels

1984 • 127 citations

Oligodendrocytes express gap junction proteins connexin32 and connexin45

1997 • 115 citations

Specific motifs in the external loops of connexin proteins can determine gap junction formation between chick heart myocytes.

1995 • 114 citations

Endothelin‐1 regulates glucose utilization in cultured astrocytes by controlling intercellular communication through gap junctions

1996 • 112 citations

Coexpression of connexin45 and -32 in oligodendrocytes of rat brain.

1997 • 102 citations

Connexins, Gap Junctions and Cell‐Cell Signalling in the Nervous System

1997 • 102 citations

Endothelin-1 regulates glucose utilization in cultured astrocytes by controlling intercellular communication through gap junctions

1996 • 99 citations

Attempts to define functional domains of gap junction proteins with synthetic peptides

1994 • 81 citations

Autocellular coupling by gap junctions in cultured astrocytes: A new view on cellular autoregulation during process formation

1998 • 74 citations

Clustering of cx43 cell-to-cell channels into gap junction plaques: Regulation by camp and microfilaments

1995 • 74 citations

Expression of connexin43 mRNA in adult rodent brain

1997 • 65 citations

Gap Junctions in the Nervous System

1996 • 62 citations

Distribution and role of gap junctions in normal myocardium and human ischaemic heart disease

1993 • 59 citations

The cardiac gap junction protein (Mr 47,000) has a tissue-specific cytoplasmic domain of Mr 17,000 at its carboxy-terminus

1987 • 50 citations

C-erbB2/neu transfection induces gap junctional communication incompetence in glial cells.

1996 • 49 citations

C-erbB2/neuTransfection Induces Gap Junctional Communication Incompetence in Glial Cells

1996 • 36 citations

Mitral and tufted cells of the mouse olfactory bulb possess gap junctions and express connexin43 mRNA

1996 • 36 citations

Do Glial Gap Junctions Play a Role in Extracellular Ion Homeostasis?

1996 • 25 citations