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Ming-Jer Tsai1, Li-Ru You, Sophia Y Tsai

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Program of Development; Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, Texas USA.

Organogenesis
|June 13, 2009
PubMed

Keywords:
COUP-TFilarteryendothelial cellnotch signalorphan nuclear receptorvein

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