Learning from the slime mold: Dictyostelium and human disease

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Saxe, Charles L ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOSKELETON; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME;

DICTYOSTELIUM; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0033362230     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302476     Document Type: Article

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