The endogenous envelope protein syncytin is involved in myoblast fusion

Cell Fusions: Regulation and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 267-275

  Bjerregaard, Bolette ^a   Talts, Jan Fredrik ^a   Larsson, Lars Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ASCT 1; ASCT 2; cell cell fusion; filopodia; fusion; myoblasts; nanotubes; skeletal muscle; syncytin

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952698128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9772-9_13     Document Type: Chapter

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