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William S Trimble1, Sergio Grinstein2

  • 1Cell Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada.

The Journal of Cell Biology
|February 4, 2015
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Keywords:
biological membranesmembrane domainscell membrane dynamicsmembrane organization

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