Structure of gap junctions in cultures of normal and neoplastic bladder epithelial cells
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 37 (3), 248-250
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01991636
Abstract
Normal rat urinary bladder epithelial cells contain small subunit (PF-1) and large subunit (PF-2) gap junctions, whereas carcinoma cells only contain PF-1 gap junctions. The absence of PF-2 gap junctions, which are composed of larger connexons with slightly larger ionic channels, may contribute to altered metabolic coupling between urinary bladder carcinoma cells.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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