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Quantal secretion and loss of vesicles induced by veratridine at the crayfish neuromuscular junction

H Wolburg1, A Beer, W Finger

  • 1Pathologisches Institut der Universität Tübingen, F.R.G.

Neuroscience Letters
|July 17, 1990
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