Gap junctions are specialised intercellular channels that facilitate direct communication between adjacent cells by allowing the regulated exchange of ions, second messengers and small metabolites.

Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is one of the main cause of organ dysfunction after heart attack and solid organ transplantation, and occurs frequently when the new organ comes from a deceased ...

Rat heart and other organs contain mRNA coding for connexin43, a polypeptide homologous to a gap junction protein from liver (connexin32). To provide direct evidence that connexin43 is a cardiac gap ...

Scientists have uncovered a key role for the protein “Frazzled” in building and maintaining the rapid neural connections that allow fruit flies to react in milliseconds.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract By using two ultrarapid freezing techniques, we have captured the structure of rat and rabbit cardiac gap junctions in a condition closer to ...

The same kind of neurons can have completely different wiring diagrams in the rat and mouse, as mice lack intercellular molecular channels known as gap junctions, researchers at Karolinska Institutet ...

TNBCs rely on fatty acid oxidization (FAO) to fuel tumor growth by breaking down surrounding adipose tissue through lipolysis. Gap junctions, particularly involving GJB3 and connexin 31 (Cx31), ...

Anchored Protein Kinase-A (PKA) bound to A-Kinase Anchoring Protein (AKAP) mediates the effects of localized increases in cAMP in defined subcellular microdomains and retains the specificity in ...

Adeno-associated virus vector containing an adenine base editor provides an effective strategy to treat hereditary hearing loss caused by the R75W mutation. Moreover, this gene editing technology can ...