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Preparation of Aplysia Sensory-motor Neuronal Cell Cultures
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Kinetic properties of cholinergic desensitization in Aplysia neurons

N T Slater, A F Hall, D O Carpenter

    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
    |November 22, 1984
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