Cell–cell junctions link cells to each other in tissues, and regulate tissue homeostasis in
critical cell processes that include tissue barrier function, cell proliferation, and migration …

Collective cell migration critically depends on cell–cell interactions coupled to a dynamic
actin cytoskeleton. Important cell–cell adhesion receptor systems implicated in controlling …

Extracellular nucleotides (eg, ATP, ADP, UTP, UDP) released by inflammatory cells interact
with specific purinergic P2 type receptors to modulate their recruitment and activation. The …

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 …

Background Oocyte growth is accompanied by follicular development in mammalian
ovaries. Since the discovery of two oocyte‐derived factors, growth differentiation factor 9 …

Sáez, Juan C., Viviana M. Berthoud, María C. Brañes, Agustín D. Martínez, and Eric C.
Beyer. Plasma Membrane Channels Formed by Connexins: Their Regulation and Functions …

Kléber, André G., and Yoram Rudy. Basic Mechanisms of Cardiac Impulse Propagation and
Associated Arrhythmias. Physiol Rev 84: 431–488, 2004; 10.1152/physrev. 00025.2003 …

Gap junctions (Gj) form conduits between adjacent cells that are composed of connexin (Cx)
protein subunits and allow direct intercellular communication. To date, the connexin gene …

Certain neurons in the mammalian brain have long been known to be joined by gap
junctions, which are the most common type of electrical synapse. More recently, cloning of …

Database search has led to the identification of a family of proteins, the pannexins, which
share some structural features with the gap junction forming proteins of invertebrates and …