Loss of Connexin36 Channels Alters β-Cell Coupling, Islet Synchronization of Glucose-Induced Ca2+ and Insulin Oscillations, and Basal Insulin Release
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vol. 54 no. 6 1798-1807
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- March 11, 2005
- December 8, 2004
- Published in print May 25, 2005.
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- Magalie A. Ravier1,
- Martin Güldenagel2,
- Anne Charollais3,
- Asllan Gjinovci3,
- Dorothée Caille3,
- Goran Söhl2,
- Claes B. Wollheim3,
- Klaus Willecke2,
- Jean-Claude Henquin1 and
- Paolo Meda3
- 1Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Louvain Faculty of Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
- 2Institute of Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- 3Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, Geneva University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
- Address correspondence and reprint requests to Paolo Meda, MD, Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, University of Geneva, C.M.U., 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. E-mail: paolo.meda{at}medecine.unige.ch. Jean-Claude Henquin, Unit of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Louvain Faculty of Medicine, UCL 55.30, Avenue Hippocrate 55, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: henquin{at}endo.ucl.ac.be