Tissue architecture: the ultimate regulator of epithelial function?

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on June 29, 1998

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C Hagios1, A Lochter, M J Bissell

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1: Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.

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