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Functional Characterization of Na+/H+ Exchangers of Intracellular Compartments Using Proton-killing Selection to Express Them at the Plasma Membrane
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Functional Characterization of Na+/H+ Exchangers of Intracellular Compartments Using Proton-killing Selection to Express Them at the Plasma Membrane

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Apical membrane chloride/base exchange in the rat proximal convoluted tubule

R J Alpern

    The Journal of Clinical Investigation
    |April 1, 1987
    PubMed

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