Cartilage Appearance Using an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope

Cell Preservation Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-54

  Suso, Santiago ^a   Segur, Josep M ^a   Carbonell, Jose A ^a   Manero, Jose M ^b   Planell, Jose A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ARTIFACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE FIXATION;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0346099099     PISSN: 1538344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/153834404322708754     Document Type: Article

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