A critical comparison between the two current methods of viewing frozen, live cells in the electron microscope: CRYO-electron microscopic tomography versus "deep-ETCH" electron microscopy

Biomedical Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-29

  Heuser, John E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 18544362030     PISSN: 1310392X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14748/bmr.v12.121     Document Type: Article

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