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Cryogenic Sample Loading into a Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer that Preserves Cellular Viability
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Cryogenic Sample Loading into a Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer that Preserves Cellular Viability

Published on: September 1, 2020

[Reaction of cells to hypertonic effects by cryoprotection]

L G Kuleshova, E A Gordienko, L F Rozanov

    Biofizika
    |July 1, 1982
    PubMed

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