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Fundamental Technical Elements of Freeze-fracture/Freeze-etch in Biological Electron Microscopy
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Spindle-membrane associations in freeze fractured HeLa cells

J M Mullins

    Cell Biology International Reports
    |February 1, 1984
    PubMed

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