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Monitoring Changes in the Intracellular Calcium Concentration and Synaptic Efficacy in the Mollusc Aplysia
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Gating currents associated with sodium and calcium currents in an Aplysia neuron

D J Adams, P W Gage

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |May 21, 1976
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