Microfibrils and Fibrillin

Biology of Extracellular Matrix

Volumn Part F2615, Issue , 2011, Pages 233-265

  Hubmacher, Dirk ^a   Reinhardt, Dieter P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

C1039G Mouse; Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly; Elastic Fiber; Marfan Syndrome; Microfibril Assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 85194398137     PISSN: 08873224     EISSN: 21911959     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16555-9_7     Document Type: Chapter

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