Chapter 10 The Desmosome: A Component System for Adhesion and Intermediate Filament Attachment

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Volumn 43, Issue C, 1996, Pages 187-209

  Kowalczyk, Andrew P ^a   Green, Kathleen J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0000025389     PISSN: 00702161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2161(08)60390-1     Document Type: Article

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