Connexins in tumour suppression and cancer therapy

Novartis Foundation Symposium

Volumn 219, Issue , 1999, Pages 241-260

  Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Omori, Yasufumi ^a   Krutovskikh, Vladimir ^a   Zhu, Weibin ^a   Mironov, Nikolai ^a   Yamakage, Kohji ^a   Mesnil, Marc ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032602745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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