Connexin 43: insights into candidate pathological mechanisms of depression and its implications in antidepressant therapy

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  2022

• Venue

  Acta Pharmacologica Sinica

• Publication date

  2022-02-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1038/s41401-022-00861-2PMID 35145238PMCID PMC9525669
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