Connexins: Gaps in Our Knowledge of Vascular Function
- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Physiology
- Vol. 19 (5), 277-284
- https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00008.2004
Abstract
Gap junctions are common features in the vasculature, long thought to provide a pathway for cell-cell signaling. Emerging understanding of the gap-junctional proteins (connexins) and new tools for their investigation now offer the opportunity to explore the vital role that the gap junctions may play in cardiovascular homeostasis and pathophysiology.Keywords
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