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Dynamic expression of a LEF-EGFP Wnt reporter in mouse development and cancer

Nicolas Currier1, Kathleen Chea, Mirka Hlavacova

  • 1Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)
|February 11, 2010
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