The crystalline lens is a transparent and refractive biconvex structure formed by lens
epithelial cells (LECs) and lens fibers. Lens opacity, also known as cataracts, is the leading …

Over 35 years ago the cell biology community was introduced to connexins as the subunit
employed to assemble semicrystalline clusters of intercellular channels that had been well …

Intercellular communication plays a crucial role in cancer, as well as other diseases, such as
inflammation, tissue degeneration, and neurological disorders. One of the proteins …

The zebrafish is a powerful model to investigate the developmental roles of electrical
synapses because many signaling pathways that regulate the development of the nervous …

In the lens, cell homeostasis and transparency are supported by intercellular communication
facilitated by the channels formed of connexin46 (Cx46) and connexin50 (Cx50). Mutations …