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Isolation of Enteric Glial Cells from the Submucosa and Lamina Propria of the Adult Mouse
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Meenakshi Rao1, Brian D Gulbransen2

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA meenakshi.rao@childrens.harvard.edu gulbrans@msu.edu.

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