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  1. University of Aberdeen Institute of Medical Sciences, Foresterhill Campus, AB25 2ZD, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

    Massimiliano Baldassarre

  2. Departments of Pharmacology and of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06405, USA

    David A. Calderwood

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    Sangdun Choi

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Baldassarre, M., Calderwood, D.A. (2018). Filamin A. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_101630

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