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Heterotypic gap junction channels as voltage-sensitive valves for intercellular signaling

Nicolas Palacios-Prado and Feliksas F. Bukauskas
PNAS September 1, 2009 106 (35) 14855-14860; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901923106
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  1. Edited by Michael V. L. Bennett, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, and approved July 9, 2009 (received for review February 23, 2009)

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vol. 106 no. 35 14855-14860
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0901923106
PubMed: 
19706392

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue September 1, 2009.
  • Published first August 24, 2009.

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© 2009

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  1. Nicolas Palacios-Prado and
  2. Feliksas F. Bukauskas,1
  1. Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461
  1. Edited by Michael V. L. Bennett, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, and approved July 9, 2009 (received for review February 23, 2009)

Footnotes

  • 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: fbukausk{at}aecom.yu.edu
  • Author contributions: N.P.-P. and F.F.B. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0901923106/DCSupplemental.

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Nicolas Palacios-Prado, Feliksas F. Bukauskas
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2009, 106 (35) 14855-14860; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901923106

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