Phagocytosis: Rac and roll over the corpses

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Caron, Emmanuelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN CDC42; PROTEIN KINASE; RAC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL DEATH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-CRK; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 0034729581     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00555-8     Document Type: Review

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