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Using Ex Vivo Upright Droplet Cultures of Whole Fetal Organs to Study Developmental Processes during Mouse Organogenesis
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Development of the mouse external genitalia: unique model of organogenesis
Kentaro Suzuki1, Kohei Shiota, Yanding Zhang
1Center for Animal Resources and Development and Graduate School of Molecular Genomic Pharmacy, Kumamoto University, Honjo 2-2-1, Kumamoto 860-0811, Japan.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|April 17, 2004
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