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Mass spectrometry for cellular and tissue analyses in a very small region

Naohiro Tsuyama1, Hajime Mizuno, Tsutomu Masujima

  • 1Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami, Hiroshima 734-8553, Japan.

Analytical Sciences : the International Journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
|February 16, 2011
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