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Original Article

High Contrast and Homogeneous Staining of Paraffin Sections of Whole Human Brains for Three Dimensional Ultrahigh Resolution Image Analysis

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Pages 44-51 | Received 10 Jun 1997, Accepted 09 Sep 1997, Published online: 12 Jul 2009

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