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Plunge Freezing: A Tool for the Ultrastructural and Immunolocalization Studies of Suspension Cells in Transmission Electron Microscopy
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Plunge Freezing: A Tool for the Ultrastructural and Immunolocalization Studies of Suspension Cells in Transmission Electron Microscopy

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A device for the rapid freezing of biological specimens under precisely controlled and reproducible conditions

W B Bald, A W Robards

    Journal of Microscopy
    |January 1, 1978
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