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Preparation of Pancreatic Acinar Cells for the Purpose of Calcium Imaging, Cell Injury Measurements, and Adenoviral Infection
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Pancreatic acinar cell metabolism and function

P D Webster, O Black, D L Mainz

    Gastroenterology
    |December 1, 1977
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