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Automated Serial Section Large-field Transmission-Mode Scanning Electron Microscopy (tSEM) for Volume Analysis of Hippocampus Ultrastructure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

John M. Mendenhall
Affiliation:
Center for Learning and Memory
Masaaki Kuwajima
Affiliation:
Center for Learning and Memory
Kristen M. Harris
Affiliation:
Center for Learning and Memory Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas, AustinUSA

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