Cell Junctions: Lessons from a Broken Heart
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In a case of the familiar being strange, new work shows that the integrity of the Drosophila cardiac system depends on septate-junction proteins even though the heart lacks discernable septate junctions.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009