Borate transport and cell growth and proliferation: Not only in plants

Cell Cycle

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-26

  Park, Meeyoung ^a   Li, Qin ^a   Shcheynikov, Nikolay ^a   Muallem, Shmuel ^a   Zeng, Weizong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BOR1; Boron; Growth; NaBC1; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

BORON; CARRIER PROTEIN; PROTEIN BOR1; PROTEIN NABC1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; SHORT SURVEY; SODIUM TRANSPORT;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 22844431547     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cc.4.1.1394     Document Type: Short Survey

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