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. 1995 May 1;307(Pt 3):875–878. doi: 10.1042/bj3070875

Limitations of the octadecylrhodamine dequenching assay for membrane fusion.

T Stegmann, J G Orsel, J D Jamieson, P J Padfield
PMCID: PMC1136729  PMID: 7741719

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