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Research Article

Dynamic Organ Culture is Superior to Multiwell Plate Culture for Maintaining Precision-Cut Tissue Slices: Optimization of Tissue Slice Culture, Part 1

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Pages 99-113 | Received 01 Feb 1995, Accepted 03 Apr 1995, Published online: 27 Sep 2008

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