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Fol. Biol. 2000, 46, 3-9

https://doi.org/10.14712/fb2000046010003

Depression in the Level of Cadherin and α-, β-, γ-catenins in Transgenic Xenopus laevis Highly Expressing c-Src

K. Dvořáková1, V. Habrová1, M. Takáč2, Jiří Jonák2

1Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

Received September 1999
Accepted November 1999

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