Cleaning up on β-catenin

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 499-500

  Nakamura, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN;

COLORECTAL CANCER; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030965101     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0597-499     Document Type: Short Survey

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