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SUBMITTER: Kantor O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6262005 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kántor Orsolya O Szarka Gergely G Benkő Zsigmond Z Somogyvári Zoltán Z Pálfi Emese E Baksa Gábor G Rácz Gergely G Nitschke Roland R Debertin Gábor G Völgyi Béla B
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 20181122
Connexin36 (Cx36) subunits form gap junctions (GJ) between neurons throughout the central nervous system. Such GJs of the mammalian retina serve the transmission, averaging and correlation of signals prior to conveying visual information to the brain. Retinal GJs have been exhaustively studied in various animal species, however, there is still a perplexing paucity of information regarding the presence and function of human retinal GJs. Particularly little is known about GJ formation of human ret ...[more]