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. 1990 Jan;85(1):3–9. doi: 10.1172/JCI114427

Alterations in the establishment and maintenance of epithelial cell polarity as a basis for disease processes.

B A Molitoris 1, W J Nelson 1
PMCID: PMC296379  PMID: 2404027

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