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. 1992 Apr;62(1):15–18. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81764-2

Calcium channel and membrane fusion activity of synexin and other members of the Annexin gene family.

H B Pollard ¹, H R Guy ¹, N Arispe ¹, M de la Fuente ¹, G Lee ¹, E M Rojas ¹, J R Pollard ¹, M Srivastava ¹, Z Y Zhang-Keck ¹, N Merezhinskaya ¹, et al.

PMCID: PMC1260470 PMID: 1318099

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