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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Beijing Key Laboratory of Cardiometabolic Molecular Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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PubMed

Keywords:
GPCR/P2Y12chromaffin celldense core vesiclemembrane potentialquantal size

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