Cell-cell nanotubes: Tunneling through several types of synapses

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 359-361

  Tarakanov, Alexander O ^a   Goncharova, Larisa B ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS AND AUTOMATION   (Russian Federation)

^b City Diagnostic Center Virology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Synapse; Tunneling nanotube

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 69249098949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.4.8289     Document Type: Article

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