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IN this communication, we give values of the mass thicknesses of the cell membranes of Bacterium coli, human red blood corpuscle and Leishmania donovani estimated as follows.
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DE, M., SADHUKHAN, P. Determination of the Mass Thickness of Cell Membranes from their Electron Micrographs. Nature 182, 1008 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821008a0
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