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Monitoring Actin Disassembly with Time-lapse Microscopy
Published on: November 8, 2006
Monitoring actin disassembly with time-lapse microscopy
1Dept. of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA. kueh@fas.harvard.edu
Journal of Visualized Experiments : Jove
|August 16, 2008
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