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Comparison of properties of Ca2+ release channels between rabbit and frog skeletal muscles

Y Ogawa1, T Murayama, N Kurebayashi

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry
|March 31, 1999
PubMed

Keywords:
calcium signaling in musclesryanodine receptor isoformsskeletal muscle physiologycomparative muscle studies

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