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Large secretory structures at the cell surface imaged with scanning force microscopy

A Spudich1, D Braunstein

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|July 18, 1995
PubMed

Keywords:
cell surface imagingsecretion mechanismsRBL cell activationscanning force microscopy

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