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In response—A modified staining protocol for Smoothelin immunostaining

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  1. The Royal Oldham Hospital, Pennine Acute NHS Trust, Rochdale Road, Oldham, OL1 2JH, UK

    Ranjani Chakravarthy, Khalid Ahmed, Salma Abbasi, Andrew Cotterill & Nazia Parveen

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Chakravarthy, R., Ahmed, K., Abbasi, S. et al. In response—A modified staining protocol for Smoothelin immunostaining. Virchows Arch 459, 119–120 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-011-1093-y

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