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This review was funded by Institute Strategic Programme Grant BB/J004456/1 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to the Babraham Institute Signalling Programme. ET is funded by a CASE PhD studentship from the BBSRC in collaboration with the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease unit of MedImmune, Cambridge. CP is funded by a Targeted PhD studentship from the BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme.
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Tsonou, E., Pantarelli, C., Hornigold, K., Welch, H.C.E. (2018). P-Rex2. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101727
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