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The dimensions of the extracellular space in sartorius muscle

P TASKER, S E SIMON, B M JOHNSTONE

    The Journal of General Physiology
    |September 1, 1959
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    ELECTROLYTES/metabolismMUSCLES/metabolism

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