Desmosomes in Development and Disease

Cell Junctions: Adhesion, Development, and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-249

  Schmidt, Ansgar ^a   Koch, Peter J ^b  

^a Fachbereich Medizin der Universitat Marburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessory desmosomal proteins; Animal models; Cell junctions; Desmosomal proteins in embryonic development; Desmosomes in development; Desmosomes in disease; Molecular composition of desmosomes; Plakoglobin; Plakophilins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862760519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527622092.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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