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Polyxeni Goulimari1, Helga Knieling, Ulrike Engel

  • 1Institute of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Molecular Biology of the Cell
|October 26, 2007
PubMed

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G protein signalingcell polarity regulationmicrotubule dynamicsLARG function

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