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Practical aspects of radio-isotopic in situ hybridization on RNA

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    Antoon F. M. Moorman, Piet A. J. De Boer, Jacqueline L. M. Vermeulen & Wouter H. Lamers

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Moorman, A.F.M., De Boer, P.A.J., Vermeulen, J.L.M. et al. Practical aspects of radio-isotopic in situ hybridization on RNA. Histochem J 25, 251–266 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00159117

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