Gene structure, cDNA cloning, and expression of a mouse mercurial-insensitive water channel

Genomics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 382-388

  Ma, Tonghui ^a   Yang, Baoxue ^a   Verkman, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MERCURY;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0029937114     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0214     Document Type: Article

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