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Fundamental Technical Elements of Freeze-fracture/Freeze-etch in Biological Electron Microscopy
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Correlated x-ray diffraction and freeze-fracture studies on membrane model systems. Perturbations induced by

M J Costello, T Gulik-Krzywicki

    Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
    |December 2, 1976
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