supported in part by New Zealand Lottery Health Research;the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust;the New Zealand Optometric Vision Research Foundation。
Compounds that block the function of connexin and pannexin protein channels have been suggested to be valuable therapeutics for a range of diseases.Some of these compounds are now in clinical trials,but for many of th...
Being critical mediators of liver homeostasis,connexins and their channels are frequently involved in liver toxicity.In the current paper,specific attention is paid to actions of hepatotoxic drugs on these communicati...
The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(81473234,U1303221)
OBJECTIVE To investigated the effects of INI-0602 on nociceptive reflex,depression-associated andanxiety-related behaviors caused by neuropathic pain in sciatic nerve injury rats.METHODS Male rat were subjected to sci...
supported by grants of the FWO,the research council of the VUB and the European Union
Direct intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions constitutes a major regulatory platform in the control of hepatic homeostasis.Hepatocellular gap junctions are composed of two hemichannels of adjacent cell...
Supported partially by the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders(FWO-Vlaanderen),Belgium
Connexin hemichannels have long been considered asmere structural precursors for gap junctions.In the last decade,it has become clear that they also act as individual channels,connecting the intracellular compartment ...
Connexin 43 (Cx43), known to be the main protein building blocks of gap junctions and hemichannels in mammalian heart, plays an important role in cardiocytes proliferation. Gap junctional intercellular communication...