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Based on a lecture given by G.P. at the invitation of the Royal Microscopical Society at a Symposium on ‘Histochemical Analysis of Cell Function’ in York 22–24 September 1987.

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Poeggel, G., Luppa, H. Histochemistry of nucleotidyl cyclases and cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases. Histochem J 20, 249–268 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01745604

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