Metabolic profiling of identified single cells in Xenopus laevis embryos
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ORGANISM(S): Xenopus Laevis
TISSUE(S): Embryonic Cells
PROVIDER: ST001028 | MetabolomicsWorkbench |
REPOSITORIES: MetabolomicsWorkbench
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