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Histochemical localization of glycogen, mucopolysaccharides, lipids, some oxidative enzymes and cholinesterases in the reproductive tract of the male fowl (Gallus domesticus).

M D Tingari, P E Lake
PMCID: PMC1271199  PMID: 4263232

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