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Basolateral membrane H-OH-HCO3 transport in the proximal tubule

P A Preisig1, R J Alpern

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 77235-8856.

The American Journal of Physiology
|May 1, 1989
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