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Capela, A., Tamaki, S., Uchida, N. (2003). Neural Stem Cell Purification and Clonal Analysis. In: Bottenstein, J.E. (eds) Neural Stem Cells. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48356-4_7

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