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Published on: January 18, 2011

The electrical constants of a crustacean nerve fibre

A L HODGKIN, W A H RUSHTON

    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
    |March 19, 2010
    PubMed
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    Keywords:
    ELECTROPHYSIOLOGYNERVOUS SYSTEM/physiology

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