Chapter 19: Gap Junction Communication in Invertebrates: The Innexin Gene Family

Current Topics in Membranes and Transport

Volumn 49, Issue C, 1999, Pages 389-422

  Phelan, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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