Emerging issues of connexin channels: biophysics fills the gap

By A. Harris. Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics (print), 2001

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Gap junctions: structure and function (Review) (2002, background): “Each hemichannel has a slow voltage sensitive gate (Harris 2001).”
Functional Hemichannels in Astrocytes: A Novel Mechanism of Glutamate Release (2003, neutral): “(Hille, 1992).”
Reading the patterns in living cells —the physics of ca2+ signaling (2004, background): “There is growing evidence that hemichannels may have greater selectivity and more active gating than thought previously [523–525].”
Electrical coupling and neuronal synchronization in the Mammalian brain. (2004, background): “…may be more important than the func- tional differences in the connexins themselves. ity to blocking agents, which include heptanol, octanol, halothane, carbenoxolone, -glycyrrhetinic acid, anandamide, oleamide, and fenamates (Harks et al., 2001;Electrical Synapses between Inhibitory Harris, 2001).”
Beyond the gap: functions of unpaired connexon channels (2003, background): “There are over 20 connexins, each of which confers different properties of conductance and regulation on the channels they for”