Connexin43, the major gap junction protein of astrocytes, is down-regulated in inflamed white matter in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.

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Published in J Neurosci Res on June 15, 2005

Authors

Elimor Brand-Schieber1, Peter Werner, Dumitru A Iacobas, Sanda Iacobas, Michelle Beelitz, Stuart L Lowery, David C Spray, Eliana Scemes

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1: Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. ebrand@aecom.yu.edu

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