High Sensitivity Top-down Proteomics Captures Single Muscle Cell Heterogeneity in Large Proteoforms
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INSTRUMENT(S): maXis II
ORGANISM(S): Rattus Norvegicus (ncbitaxon:10116)
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Ying Ge
PROVIDER: MSV000090967 | MassIVE | Fri Dec 23 12:11:00 GMT 2022
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
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