ABSTRACT

I. Introduction .............................................................................................447 II. Disrupted homeostasis as a shared toxicological mechanism

in many disease states ...........................................................................448 III. GAP junctional communication: “where the toxic rubber hits

the road to diseases” ..............................................................................450 IV. GAP junctional intercellular communication: the biological

rosetta stone in toxicology ....................................................................451 Acknowledgments ..............................................................................................452 References.............................................................................................................453

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