State of the art three-dimensional stereo reconstruction of ultrastructures on the example of retinal ribbon synapses

Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-18

  Jastrow, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

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