A role for calcineurin in Dictyostelium discoideum development

Differentiation

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 269-275

  Horn, Fabiana ^a   Gross, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0029794388     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002580050157     Document Type: Article

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