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βThis volume presents an excellent overview into the world of cell adhesion. It provides important details about the main players in all aspects of cell junctions.β βThe Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2009
Eagerly awaited,Β this comprehensive book onΒ a topic of fundamental importance in our understanding of cancer begins with an overview of cellular junctions, before covering in detail cell-matrix junctions,Β cell-cell junctions as well asΒ cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesion. This reference workΒ is of high interest to cell and molecular biologists, cancer researchers, oncologists, biochemists, pharmaceutists and those working in the pharmaceutical industry.
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