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Demonstration of astrocytes in cultured amniotic fluid cells of three cases with neural-tube defect

✍ Scribed by Marion Cremer; Melitta Schachner; Thomas Cremer; Werner Schmidt; Theda Voigtländer

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1981
Tongue: English
Weight: 582 KB
Volume: 56
Category: Article
ISSN: 0340-6717
DOI: 10.1007/bf00274694

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