1. An update on minding the gap in cancer.
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Mesnil M, Aasen T, Boucher J, Chépied A, Cronier L, Defamie N, Kameritsch P, Laird DW, Lampe PD, Lathia JD, Leithe E, Mehta PP, Monvoisin A, Pogoda K, Sin WC, Tabernero A, Yamasaki H, Yeh ES, Dagli MLZ, and Naus CC
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- Animals, Gap Junctions genetics, Gap Junctions pathology, Humans, Neoplasm Proteins genetics, Neoplasms genetics, Neoplasms pathology, Gap Junctions metabolism, Neoplasm Proteins metabolism, Neoplasms metabolism
- Abstract
This article is a report of the "International Colloquium on Gap junctions: 50Years of Impact on Cancer" that was held 8-9 September 2016, at the Amphitheater "Pôle Biologie Santé" of the University of Poitiers (Poitiers, France). The colloquium was organized by M Mesnil (Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France) and C Naus (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the seminal work published in 1966 by Loewenstein and Kanno [Intercellular communication and the control of tissue growth: lack of communication between cancer cells, Nature, 116 (1966) 1248-1249] which initiated studies on the involvement of gap junctions in carcinogenesis. During the colloquium, 15 participants presented reviews or research updates in the field which are summarized below., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2018
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