Subtype-Specific Intracellular Trafficking of a2-Adrenergic Receptors
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Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (D.A.D., C.H.), Institut für Pharmakologie, Universität Würzburg, 97078 Würzburg, Germany (L.H.), Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, MediCity Research Laboratory, University of Turku, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland (J.K.), Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (F.F.), and Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (B.K.K.)
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