Amino acid-sensing mTOR signaling

Nutrients and Cell Signaling

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 353-380

  Erbay, Ebru ^a   Kim, Jae Eun ^a   Chen, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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