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Camera-based Measurements of Intracellular [Na+] in Murine Atrial Myocytes
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No fuzzy space for intracellular Na+ in healthy ventricular myocytes
Frank B Sachse1, Robert Clark2, Wayne R Giles3
1Department of Bioengineering and Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
The Journal of General Physiology
|June 20, 2017
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