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Visualization of Endoplasmic Reticulum Subdomains in Cultured Cells
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Visualization of Endoplasmic Reticulum Subdomains in Cultured Cells

Published on: February 18, 2014

[Endoplasmic reticulum (a review of the literature)]

A I Nevorotin

    Tsitologiia
    |January 1, 1992
    PubMed

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