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  1. Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, USA

    Rachel Y. Ames & Fernando Macian

  2. Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology, University of Murcia School of Medicine and Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria, Murcia, Spain

    Rut Valdor

  3. Scripps Translational Science Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Brian T. Abe

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Ames, R.Y., Valdor, R., Abe, B.T., Macian, F. (2016). NFAT. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6438-9_141-1

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