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A K Ritchie1, Y A Kuryshev, G V Childs

  • 1Aileen K. Ritchie and Yuri A. Kuryshev are at the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77550, USA.

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