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Innexins: Expression, Regulation, and Functions
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 The innexin (Inx) proteins form gap junction channels and non-junctional channels (named hemichannels) in invertebrates. These channels participate in cellular communication playing a relevant role in several physiological processes.
Juan Güiza +4 more
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Connexins in Cancer: Jekyll or Hyde?
Biomolecules, 2020 The expression, localization, and function of connexins, the protein subunits that comprise gap junctions, are often altered in cancer. In addition to cell–cell coupling through gap junction channels, connexins also form hemichannels that allow ...
Erin E. Mulkearns-Hubert +2 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 Electrical synaptic transmission is an essential form of interneuronal communication which is mediated by gap junctions that permit ion flow. Three gene families (connexins, innexins, and pannexins) have evolved to form gap junctional channels.
Qiqian Wang, Shenquan Liu
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Biomolecules, 2020 Barrier function is a vital homeostatic mechanism employed by epithelial and endothelial tissue. Diseases across a wide range of tissue types involve dynamic changes in transcellular junctional complexes and the actin cytoskeleton in the regulation of ...
Randy E. Strauss, Robert G. Gourdie
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Nanomaterial‐based immune therapeutic strategies in neurodegenerative diseases
BMEMat, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2026.This review highlights the immunomodulatory potential of nanomaterials (NMs) in treating neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). It focuses on their roles in regulating innate and adaptive immune responses to maintain immune homeostasis. By providing insights into these mechanisms, the review lays the groundwork for innovative NMs therapeutic strategies to ...
Xinru Zhou +6 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2014 Nicotine, the most important neuroteratogen of tobacco smoke, can reproduce brain and cognitive disturbances per se when administered prenatally. However, it is still unknown if paracrine signaling among brain cells participates in prenatal nicotine ...
Juan Andrés Orellana +6 more
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Long‐lasting remodeling of astrocytes in an Scna1+/− mouse model of Dravet syndrome
Epilepsia, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 3226-3242, June 2026.Abstract Objective Dravet syndrome (DS) is a prototypical developmental and epileptic encephalopathy caused by mutations in the SCN1A gene, leading to loss of function of the voltage‐gated sodium channel Naᵥ1.1. The latter causes early onset drug‐resistant seizures and enduring cognitive and behavioral deficits.
Athénaïs Genin +10 more
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Analysis of trafficking, stability and function of human connexin 26 gap junction channels with deafness-causing mutations in the fourth transmembrane helix. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Human Connexin26 gene mutations cause hearing loss. These hereditary mutations are the leading cause of childhood deafness worldwide. Mutations in gap junction proteins (connexins) can impair intercellular communication by eliminating protein synthesis ...
Cinzia Ambrosi +7 more
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Encephalopathy: Cause, Pathogenesis, and Treatment
MedComm, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2026.Various encephalopathies (sepsis‐associated, hepatic, hypoxic–ischemic, diabetic, uremic, toxic) have incompletely elucidated pathogenesis, which severely restricts targeted therapy development. Small molecule drugs show unique multitarget potential but face toxicity, poor blood–brain barrier penetration and unclear specificity.
Shimeng Lv +7 more
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Nature of plasmalemmal functional “hemichannels”
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2012 The molecular identity of the protein forming "hemichannels" at non-junctional membranes is disputed. The family of gap junction proteins, innexins, connexins, and pannexins share several common features, including permeability characteristics and sensitivity to blocking agents.
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