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1991 • 415 citations

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1990 • 363 citations

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1991 • 360 citations

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1968 • 349 citations

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1992 • 344 citations

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1981 • 334 citations

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1992 • 321 citations

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1991 • 317 citations

Formation of gap junctions by expression of connexins in Xenopus oocyte pairs

1989 • 317 citations

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1983 • 306 citations

Four novel members of the connexin family of gap junction proteins. Molecular cloning, expression, and chromosome mapping.

1992 • 305 citations

Modulation of an electrical synapse between solitary pairs of catfish horizontal cells by dopamine and second messengers.

1989 • 274 citations

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1989 • 274 citations

Cell junctions and intramembrane particles of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes: A freeze-fracture study

1982 • 256 citations

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1992 • 251 citations

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1984 • 235 citations

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1990 • 232 citations

Long-term potentiation of electrotonic coupling at mixed synapses

1990 • 181 citations

Distribution of mRNAs coding for liver and heart gap junction proteins in the rat central nervous system

1991 • 178 citations

Electrical coupling between astrocytes and between oligodendrocytes studied in mammalian cell cultures

1988 • 174 citations

Mouse connexin37: cloning and functional expression of a gap junction gene highly expressed in lung.

1991 • 172 citations

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1990 • 150 citations

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1991 • 149 citations

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1991 • 132 citations

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1989 • 123 citations

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1974 • 120 citations

Sequence and developmental expression of mRNA coding for a gap junction protein in Xenopus.

1988 • 103 citations

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1981 • 103 citations

Characterization of gap junctions between cultured leptomeningeal cells

1991 • 91 citations

Heterogeneity in gap junction expression in astrocytes cultured from different brain regions

1992 • 84 citations

Gap junction protein in rat hippocampus: Light microscope immunohistochemical localization

1989 • 73 citations

Axotomy-induced parallel increases in electrical and dye coupling between identified neurons of Helisoma

1983 • 70 citations

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1989 • 60 citations

Expression of connexins in the developing olfactory system of the mouse

1992 • 55 citations

Characteristics of C6 glioma cells overexpressing a gap junction protein

1992 • 51 citations

Pinealocytes in rats: connexin identification and increase in coupling caused by norepinephrine

1991 • 44 citations

Gating of gap junction channels as revealed in cells stably transfected with wild type and mutant connexin cDNAs

1992 • 35 citations

Electrotonic synapses are formed by fetal rat sympathetic neurons maintained in a chemically-defined culture medium

1982 • 34 citations

Gap junction protein in weakly electric fish (gymnotide): Immunohistochemical localization with emphasis on structures of the electrosensory system

1989 • 23 citations

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