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. 1962 Jan;96(Pt 1):79–88.8.

The isolation of nerve endings from brain

An electron microscopic study of cell fragments derived by homogenization and centrifugation

E G Gray ^1,², V P Whittaker ^1,²

PMCID: PMC1244174 PMID: 13901297

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