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High-resolution Respirometry to Assess Mitochondrial Function in Permeabilized and Intact Cells
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The residual protonmotive force in mitochondria after an oxygen pulse

E Heinz, H V Westerhoff, K van Dam

    European Journal of Biochemistry
    |March 16, 1981
    PubMed

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