Signalling to and from tight junctions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-236

  Matter, Karl ^a   Balda, Maria S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RHO FACTOR;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIGHT JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0037336565     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1055     Document Type: Review

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