Cross-talk between tight and anchoring junctions-lesson from the testis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 636, Issue , 2008, Pages 234-254

  Yan, Helen H N ^a   Mruk, Dolores D ^a   Lee, Will M ^a   Yan Cheng, C ^a  

^a POPULATION COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL JUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; BLOOD-TESTIS BARRIER; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 73949155530     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09597-4_13     Document Type: Article

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