Connexins in cardiac development: Expression, role, and transcriptional control

Gap Junctions in Development and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 29-55

  Gros, Daniel B ^a   Alcoléa, Sébastien ^a   Dupays, Laurent ^a   Meysen, Sonia ^a   Théveniau Ruissy, Magali ^a   Teunissen, Birgit E J ^b   Bierhuizen, Marti F A ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33847645230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28621-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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