"Gap junctions are aggregates of narrow water-filled intercellular channels that connect the cytoplasm of cells and allow direct cell–to-cell transfer of ions and small molecules such as calcium and cyclic AMP, but not large molecules such as proteins 1."
"Gap junctions are aggregates of narrow water-filled intercellular channels that connect the cytoplasm of cells and allow direct cell–to-cell transfer of ions and small molecules such as calcium and cyclic AMP, but not large molecules such as proteins 1."
"Vertebrate gap junctions are composed of transmembrane proteins called connexins, and six connexins form a hemichannel called a connexon 1."
"The first gap junction gene, unc-7, was characterised by the British biologist Sydney Brenner in 1974 9 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans."
"History and etymology"