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Technique to Collect Fungiform (Taste) Papillae from Human Tongue
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Published on: September 18, 2010

Effect of vincristine on the histological structure of taste buds

F A State, M S Hamed, A A Bondok

    Acta Anatomica
    |January 1, 1977
    PubMed

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