Polymorphic fibrillar assembly of human amylin

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-27

  Goldsbury, Claire S ^a   Cooper, Garth J S ^a   Goldie, Kenneth N ^a   Müller, Shirley A ^a   Saafi, Etuate L ^a   Gruijters, W T M ^a   Misur, Martin P ^a   Engel, Andreas ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Kistler, Joerg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; AMYLOID;

ARTICLE; FIBER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0031170857     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3858     Document Type: Article

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