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Live Imaging of Dense-core Vesicles in Primary Cultured Hippocampal Neurons
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Published on: May 29, 2009

The large dense core vesicle: a normal organelle of the central nervous system myelinated axon

F H Harvey

    Acta Neuropathologica
    |January 1, 1975
    PubMed

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