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Methods to Study Epithelial Transport Protein Function and Expression in Native Intestine and Caco-2 Cells Grown in 3D
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Methods to Study Epithelial Transport Protein Function and Expression in Native Intestine and Caco-2 Cells Grown in 3D

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Alpha integrin subunits regulate human (Caco-2) intestinal epithelial proliferation and phenotype

M D Basson1, N J Emenaker, M A Sanders

  • 1Depts. of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine and CT VA Health Care System, New Haven and West Haven, CT 06520, USA. marc.basson@yale.edu

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry : International Journal of Experimental Cellular Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology
|June 9, 2000
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