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Fractal michaelis-menten kinetics under steady state conditions: Application to mibefradil

Rebeccah E Marsh1, Jack A Tuszyński

  • 1P-412, Avadh Bhatia Physics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, Canada. rmarsh@ualberta.ca

Pharmaceutical Research
|October 26, 2006
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