Chapter 21: Trafficking and Targeting of Connexin32 Mutations to Gap Junctions in Charcot-Marie-Tooth X-Linked Disease

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Volumn 49, Issue C, 1999, Pages 461-481

  Martin, Patricia E M ^a   Evans, W Howard ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0008559128     PISSN: 00702161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-2161(08)61025-4     Document Type: Article

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