Epithelia: not just physical barriers.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 19, 2002

Authors

Tomas Ganz1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. tganz@mednet.ucla.edu

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