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Structural and Functional Diversity of Connexin Genes in the Mouse and Human Genome

2002 • 1,157 citations

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

1987 • 1,111 citations

Signaling Mechanisms Underlying the Vascular Myogenic Response

1999 • 972 citations

Oxidative Stress as a Regulator of Gene Expression in the Vasculature

1999 • 810 citations

Mechanical Stretch Enhances mRNA Expression and Proenzyme Release of Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) via NAD(P)H Oxidase–Derived Reactive Oxygen Species

2003 • 414 citations

A Fluorescence Photobleaching Assay of Gap Junction-mediated Communication Between Human Cells

1986 • 337 citations

Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Trigger Calcium Increases During Hypoxia in Pulmonary Arterial Myocytes

2002 • 286 citations

Gap Junctions in Vascular Tissues

1996 • 270 citations

A pre-loading method of evaluating gap junctional communication by fluorescent dye transfer.

1995 • 210 citations

Pulsatile Stretch Stimulates Superoxide Production and Activates Nuclear Factor-κB in Human Coronary Smooth Muscle

1997 • 206 citations

Trafficking, Assembly, and Function of a Connexin43-Green Fluorescent Protein Chimera in Live Mammalian Cells

1999 • 204 citations

The life cycle of a connexin: Gap junction formation, removal, and degradation

1996 • 187 citations

Regulation of Vascular Connexin43 Gene Expression by Mechanical Loads

1998 • 140 citations

Endothelial responses to mechanical stress: Where is the mechanosensor?

2002 • 137 citations

2-mercaptoethanol restores the ability of nuclear factor κB (NF κB) to bind DNA in nuclear extracts from interleukin 1-treated cells incubated with pyrollidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC). Evidence for oxidation of glutathione in the mechanism of inhibition of NFκB by PDTC

1996 • 136 citations

Hypertonic inhibition of exocytosis in neutrophils: central role for osmotic actin skeleton remodeling

2000 • 134 citations

Cell-to-cell communication coordinates blood flow control.

1994 • 134 citations

Specificity of gap junction communication among human mammary cells and connexin transfectants in culture

1993 • 129 citations

Connexin-specific distribution within gap junctions revealed in living cells

2000 • 125 citations

Connexin43 phosphorylation state and intercellular communication in cultured astrocytes following hypoxia and protein phosphatase inhibition

2000 • 103 citations

Cellular and molecular biology of vascular remodeling

1996 • 80 citations

Modulation of vascular smooth muscle cell alignment by cyclic strain is dependent on reactive oxygen species and P38 mitogen-activated protein kinase

2003 • 80 citations

Molecular Cloning, Functional Expression, and Tissue Distribution of a Novel Human Gap Junction-forming Protein, Connexin-31.9

2002 • 77 citations

Novel biphasic effect of pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate on neuronal cell viability is mediated by the differential regulation of intracellular zinc and copper ion levels, NF-?b, and MAP kinases

2000 • 75 citations

Cyclic strain modulates resistance to oxidant stress by increasing G6PDH expression in smooth muscle cells

2000 • 72 citations

CD14-independent activation of cardiomyocyte signal transduction by bacterial endotoxin

2000 • 69 citations

Inhibitors of gap junctions attenuate myogenic tone in cerebral arteries

2002 • 53 citations

Redox signaling in oxygen sensing by vessels

2002 • 52 citations

Mechanical stretch increases proto-oncogene expression and phosphoinositide turnover in vascular smooth muscle cells

1994 • 50 citations

Lipopolysaccharide Internalization Activates Endotoxin-Dependent Signal Transduction in Cardiomyocytes

2001 • 47 citations

Cyclic Strain Increases Protease-Activated Receptor-1 Expression in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

2001 • 42 citations

Chronic hypoxia upregulates connexin43 expression in rat carotid body and petrosal ganglion

2002 • 34 citations

Intercellular communication in cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells

2001 • 24 citations

Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching

2003 • 23 citations

Assaying the Molecular Permeability of Connexin Channels

2003 • 21 citations