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Research Article

Reconstruction of Appropriate Tubulin and Actin Gene Regulation After Transient Transfection of Cloned β-Tubulin and β-Actin Genes

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Pages 1611-1620 | Received 19 Feb 1985, Accepted 27 Mar 1985, Published online: 31 Mar 2023

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