Multiscale Imaging Reveals the Hierarchical Organization of Fibrillin Microfibrils
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Molecular Biology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0022-2836
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2018.08.012