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Investigating Mast Cell Secretory Granules; from Biosynthesis to Exocytosis
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Investigating Mast Cell Secretory Granules; from Biosynthesis to Exocytosis

Published on: January 26, 2015

Exposure of an antigen of chromaffin granules on cell surface during exocytosis

G Lingg, R Fischer-Colbrie, W Schmidt

    Nature
    |February 17, 1983
    PubMed

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