High incidence of spontaneous and chemically induced liver tumors in mice deficient for connexin32

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 713-716

  Temme, Achim ^a   Buchmann, Albrecht ^b   Gabriel, Heinz Dieter ^a   Nelles, Eric ^a   Schwarz, Michael ^b   Willecke, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031240077     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(06)00302-2     Document Type: Article

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