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Demonstration of Proteolytic Activation of the Epithelial Sodium Channel (ENaC) by Combining Current Measurements with Detection of Cleavage Fragments
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An Alu cassette in the human epithelial sodium channel

Y S Oh, S Lee, C Won

    Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
    |July 27, 2001
    PubMed

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