Is my antibody-staining specific? How to deal with pitfalls of immunohistochemistry.

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Published in Eur J Neurosci on December 01, 2008

Authors

Jean-Marc Fritschy1

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. fritschy@pharma.uzh.ch

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