The role of connexins in wound healing and repair: novel therapeutic approaches
Gap junctions are intercellular proteins responsible for mediating both electrical and biochemical coupling through the exchange of ions, second messengers and small metabolites. They are made of two connexons, with each (one) connexon supplied by each cell. A connexon consists of a hexamer of conne...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Physiology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2016.00596/full |