The ultrastructure of chicken gizzard vinculin as visualized by high-resolution electron microscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 270-277

  Winkler, J ^a   Lunsdorf H ^b   Jockusch, B M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VINCULIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIAN STOMACH; CHICKEN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0343058961     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1996.0042     Document Type: Article

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