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R A Christopher1, J L Guan

  • 1Cancer Biology Laboratories, Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

International Journal of Molecular Medicine
|May 17, 2000
PubMed

Keywords:
cell migrationfocal adhesionssignal transductionactin cytoskeleton

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