From acute ER stress to physiological roles of the Unfolded Protein Response

Cell Death and Differentiation - Tập 13 Số 3 - Trang 374-384 - 2006
Jun Wu1, Randal J. Kaufman1
1Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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