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ISRN Cell Biology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 597876, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/597876
Review Article
Focus on ADF/Cofilin: Beyond Actin Cytoskeletal Regulation
Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Received 8 November 2011; Accepted 8 December 2011
Academic Editors: V. M. Golubovskaya and A. A. Minin
Copyright © 2012 Cheng-Han Tsai and Yi-Jang Lee. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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