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Hyun Woo Lee1, Cheol Hee Baak, Moo Yeol Lee

  • 1Department of Life and Leisure Sport/Sport Industry, College of Sports Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea.

The Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology : Official Journal of the Korean Physiological Society and the Korean Society of Pharmacology
|April 5, 2011
PubMed

Keywords:
Human ureterInterstitial cell of CajalPacemaker activitySpontaneous contraction

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