Gap Junctions in Development and Disease
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-28621-9
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Starting with a comprehensive review of the various mouse and human genes encoding the channel-forming protein connexin, further chapters describe the most important connexin mutations that lead to diseases such as hereditary deafness and female infertility in humans. Erroneous signaling mediated via connexin-protein interactions, thought to be responsible for disfunction of organs such as heart, muscle, brain, skin, lens, placenta, and endocrine tissue in mice and men, is also addressed.
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Regeneration, brain, cancer, cardiac development, development, genes, genome, infertility, mouse, mutation, placenta, protein, proteins, tissue, transcription
