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The autometallographic zinc-sulphide method. A new approach involvingin vivo creation of nanometer-sized zinc sulphide crystal lattices in zinc-enriched synaptic and secretory vesicles

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G. Danscher (1996). The autometallographic zinc-sulphide method. A new approach involvingin vivo creation of nanometer-sized zinc sulphide crystal lattices in zinc-enriched synaptic and secretory vesicles. The Histochemical Journal, 28(5), 361-373. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02331399