Novel insights into intermediate-filament function from studies of transgenic and knockout mice

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Volumn 211, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 140-150

  Magin, Thomas M ^a   Hesse, Michael ^a   Schröder, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cytoskeleton; Intermediate filaments; Keratins; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON; DESMIN; GENE REPLACEMENT; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; KERATIN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0034078564     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01304482     Document Type: Article

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