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. 1982 Sep;135(Pt 2):385–394.

Light and electron microscopic demonstration of non-specific esterase in amoeboid microglial cells in the corpus callosum in postnatal rats: a cytochemical link to monocytes.

E A Ling, C Kaur, W C Wong
PMCID: PMC1168241  PMID: 7174509

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