Gap junction wiring: a `new' principle in cell-to-cell communication in the nervous system?1Published on the World Wide Web on 4 November 1997.1
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This review gives an updated excerpt of recent advances in our understanding of brain gap junctions. It starts with a brief description of the principle molecular composition of gap junctions before specific issues concerning brain tissues are addressed. The following questions and matters are subjected to a detailed analysis: First, why are there so many gap junctions in the brain? Second, what is the functional significance of the cellular diversity of brain gap junctions? Third, how do astrocytic gap junctions mediate intercellular volume transmission (IVT), and what does IVT mean for glial-neuronal interaction? Fourth, how frequent are interneuronal gap junctions; and what is their functional significance in brain development and in interrelated chemical-electrotonic transmission at mixed synapses.
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Beginning in 1998, evidence began to show that gamma synchrony, the best measurable correlate of consciousness, depended on gap junctions, particularly dendritic-dendritic gap junctions.
“Beginning in 1998, evidence began to show that gamma synchrony, the best measurable correlate of consciousness, depended on gap junctions, particularly dendritic-dendritic gap junctions [49][50][51][52][53][54].”
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- Authors
- Dermietzel, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Regensburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Dermietzel, Rolf
- ORCID
- Dermietzel, Rolf
- Venue
- Brain Research Reviews
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-05
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 176-183
- ISSN
- 0165-0173 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1502268197
- Cited by
- 117
- References
- 54
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- 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 0.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Brain Research Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Connexins and lens biology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Keywords
- gap junctions, brain, astrocytes, neuron-glia interactions, mixed synapses, brain development, cell-to-cell communication
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Cell Communication, Models, Neurological, Synaptic Transmission, Neuroglia, Neurons, Gap Junctions, Connexins
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