An Overview of Extracellular Matrix Structure and Function

Biology of Extracellular Matrix

Volumn Part F2615, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-39

  Engel, Jürgen ^a   Chiquet, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein; Domain Organization; Exon Shuffling; Multidomain Protein; Triple Helix

Indexed keywords

EID: 85194366689     PISSN: 08873224     EISSN: 21911959     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16555-9_1     Document Type: Chapter

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