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Membrane Potentials, Synaptic Responses, Neuronal Circuitry, Neuromodulation and Muscle Histology Using the Crayfish: Student Laboratory Exercises
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[Membrane potential equations]

N V Kopylova, S A Regirer

    Biofizika
    |April 2, 2009
    PubMed

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