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Growth cones of living neurons probed by atomic force microscopy

Davide Ricci1, Massimo Grattarola, Mariateresa Tedesco

  • 1Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 28, 2003
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