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Observation of the Ciliary Movement of Choroid Plexus Epithelial Cells Ex Vivo
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Modified axonemes and ciliary membranes in three polychaete species

H D Pfannenstiel

    Cell and Tissue Research
    |January 1, 1982
    PubMed

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