Connective tissue disorders: The paradigms of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and pseudoxanthoma elasticum

Principles of Molecular Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1035-1042

  Uitto, Jouni ^a   Ringpfeil, Franziska ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Ehlers Danlos syndrome; elastic fibers; glycoproteins; glycosaminoglycan proteoglycan macromolecules; noncollagenous; pseudoxanthoma elasticum

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049108480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59259-963-9_106     Document Type: Chapter

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