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Abstract
Using ultrarapid-freezing techniques and freeze-fracture electron microscopy, we report here a close association between cardiac gap junctions and specialized membrane domains containing regularly-spaced furrows. These specialized furrowed domains are observed only during periods of gap junction re-organisation (i.e., connexon redistribution) and may reflect the presence of underlying cytoskeletal elements controlling the position of connexons in the membrane.Mesh:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6090023 DOI: 10.1007/bf00229215
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Tissue Res ISSN: 0302-766X Impact factor: 5.249