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Stoichiometry of Na+-HCO-3 cotransport in basolateral membrane vesicles isolated from rabbit renal cortex

M Soleimani, S M Grassi, P S Aronson

    The Journal of Clinical Investigation
    |April 1, 1987
    PubMed

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