Cells of multicellular organisms need to communicate with each other and have evolved
various mechanisms for this purpose, the most direct and quickest of which is through …

Gap junctions provide one of the most common forms of intercellular communication. They
are composed of membrane proteins that form a channel that is permeable to ions and small …

Gap junction channels facilitate the intercellular exchange of ions and small molecules.
While this process is critical to all multicellular organisms, the proteins that form gap junction …

Direct cell-to-cell communication through specialized intercellular channels is a
characteristic feature of virtually all multi-cellular organisms. The remarkable functional …

Communication plays an important role in the rapid progress of modern society. We live in
an age when information is transmitted through many different pathways and in many …

Gap junctions are aggregates of intercellular channels that permit direct cell–cell transfer of
ions and small molecules. Initially described as low-resistance ion pathways joining …

Vertebrates express two families of gap junction proteins: the well characterized connexins
and the recently discovered pannexins. The latter are related to invertebrate innexins. Here …

The advent of multicellular organisms, some 800 million years ago, necessitated the
development of mechanisms for cell-to-cell synchronization and for the spread of signals …

Gap junctional channels are a class of membrane channels composed of transmembrane
channel-forming integral membrane proteins termed connexins, innexins or pannexins that …

Gap junctions belong to the most conserved cellular structures in multicellular organisms,
from Hydra to man. They contain tightly packed clusters of hydrophilic membrane channels …