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Culture of pancreatic islet cells and islet hormone producing cell lines “morphological and functional integrity in culture”

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Takaki, R. Culture of pancreatic islet cells and islet hormone producing cell lines “morphological and functional integrity in culture”. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 25, 763–769 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02623658

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