A new look into an old problem: keratins as tools to investigate determination, morphogenesis, and differentiation in skin.

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Published in Genes Dev on January 01, 1989

Authors

R Kopan1, E Fuchs

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637.

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