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Patterns of Gap Junctional Permeability in Developing Insect Tissues

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Abstract

The gap junction is an essential membrane component of animal tissues. Arising early in animal evolution, gap junctions are found in the most primitive multicellular organisms and in most Metazoa (reviewed in Revel, 1987).

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  1. Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5B7

    S. Caveney

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  1. Institute for Applied Biology, The University of York, Y01 5DD, York, UK

    A. W. Robards

  2. Department of Botany, University of California, 95616, Davis, CA, USA

    W. J. Lucas

  3. Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Wolfson Laboratory for Molecular Pathology, Garscube Estate, Switchback Road, G61 1BD, Bearsden, Glasgow, UK

    J. D. Pitts

  4. Department of Physiology, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. J. Jongsma

  5. Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Ave, 10461, Bronx, NY, USA

    D. C. Spray

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Caveney, S. (1990). Patterns of Gap Junctional Permeability in Developing Insect Tissues. In: Robards, A.W., Lucas, W.J., Pitts, J.D., Jongsma, H.J., Spray, D.C. (eds) Parallels in Cell to Cell Junctions in Plants and Animals. NATO ASI Series, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83971-9_8

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