Principles of Laser Microdissection and Catapulting of Histologic Specimens and Live Cells

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2007, Pages 153-205

  Vogel, Alfred ^a   Horneffer, Verena ^a   Lorenz, Kathrin ^a   Linz, Norbert ^a   Hüttmann, Gereon ^a   Gebert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICRODISSECTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LASERS; MICRODISSECTION;

EID: 34250345260     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(06)82005-4     Document Type: Review

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