ADAMs and cell fusion

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 692-699

  Huovila, Ari Pekka J ^a,b   Almeida, Eduardo A C ^a   White, Judith M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; DISINTEGRIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

CELL FUSION; CELL INTERACTION; MYOBLAST; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030272094     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(96)80111-6     Document Type: Article

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