The path of intercellular communication: Gap junctions

Advances in Organ Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2000, Pages 397-423

  Brink, Peter ^a   Barr, Lloyd ^a  

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EID: 0001339108     PISSN: 15692590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2590(00)08013-7     Document Type: Review

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