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Advances in molecular and cell biology. Volume 16, Cell adhesion /

One prerequisite for the evolution of multicellular organisms was the invention of mechanisms by which cells could adhere to one another. At some point in our history, dividing cells no longer went their separate protozoic ways in the primordial oceans, but instead found that by maintaining an assoc...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Colman, D. (David)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Greenwich, CT : JAI Press, 1996.
Series:Advances in molecular and cell biology ; 16.
Subjects:
Cell adhesion.
Molecular biology.
Cell Adhesion
Molecular Biology
Cellules > Adhésivité.
Biologie moléculaire.
molecular biology.
Cell adhesion
Molecular biology
Electronic books.
Festschriften
Festschriften.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology, Volume 16; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. The Structure and Function of Integrins; Chapter 2. Function and Regulation of Selectins: A New Family of Leukocyte and Endothelial Cell Adhesion Proteins; Chapter 3. Discovery and Analysis of the Classical Cadherins; Chapter 4. Desmosomal Cadherins and their Interactions with Plakoglobin; Chapter 5. Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily; Chapter 6. Protein Zero of Peripheral Nerve Myelin: Adhesion Properties and Functional Models