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Tethered Agonism: A Common Activation Mechanism of Adhesion GPCRs

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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR2149, Projects 4 & 5) and the BMBF (IFB AdipositasDiseases Leipzig ADI-K767).

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Liebscher, I., Schöneberg, T. (2016). Tethered Agonism: A Common Activation Mechanism of Adhesion GPCRs. In: Langenhan, T., Schöneberg, T. (eds) Adhesion G Protein-coupled Receptors. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 234. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41523-9_6

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