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Quantifying Agonist Activity at G Protein-coupled Receptors
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Dynamics of receptor activation by agonists

Anthony Auerbach1

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.

Biophysical Journal
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