Imaging articular cartilage tissue using atomic force microscopy (AFM)

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Plodinec, Marija ^a   Loparic, Marko ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; HIP; IMMERSION; KNEE; NONHUMAN; PUNCH BIOPSY; RIGIDITY; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

EID: 77958091044     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.prot5499     Document Type: Article

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