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Ligand Gated and Voltage Gated Ion Channels
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Ligand Gated and Voltage Gated Ion Channels

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Wenjun Guo1, Lei Chen2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Beijing 100871, China.

Cell Calcium
|September 7, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
BTDMIon channelTRPTRPC

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