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Modeling Biological Membranes with Circuit Boards and Measuring Electrical Signals in Axons: Student Laboratory Exercises
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Published on: January 18, 2011

Differential margin of safety of conduction in individual peripheral axons

B R Fink, A M Cairns

    Anesthesiology
    |July 1, 1985
    PubMed

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