Secreted Klotho protein in sera and CSF: implication for post-translational cleavage in release of Klotho protein

Akihiro Imura1, Akiko Iwano, Osamu Tohyama

  • 1Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.

FEBS Letters
|May 12, 2004
PubMed

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