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Spinning-disk confocal microscopy -- a cutting-edge tool for imaging of membrane traffic

Akihiko Nakano1

  • 1Molecular Membrane Biology Laboratory, RIKEN Discovery Research Institute, Saitama, Japan. nakano@postman.riken.go.jp

Cell Structure and Function
|December 28, 2002
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