Claudin-based barrier in simple and stratified cellular sheets

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 531-536

  Tsukita, Shoichiro ^a   Furuse, Mikio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAUDIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036773738     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0955-0674(02)00362-9     Document Type: Review

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