Changes in the elastic properties of cholinergic synaptic vesicles as measured by atomic force microscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 2 I, 1997, Pages 806-813

  Laney, Daniel E ^a   Garcia, Ricardo A ^a   Parsons, Stanley M ^a   Hansma, Helen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0031012863     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78714-9     Document Type: Article

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