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Fine-tuning of cell signaling by glypicans

A Fico1, F Maina, R Dono

  • 1Developmental Biology Institute of Marseille-Luminy, CNRS UMR, Inserm, Université de la Méditerrannée, Campus de Luminy, France.

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences : CMLS
|December 19, 2007
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