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Getting heart cells on the same wavelength: infrared triggering of Ca2+ transients in cardiac myocytes
1Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, Box 1215, New York, NY 10029, USA. eric.sobie@mssm.edu
The Journal of Physiology
|April 14, 2011
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