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An Isolated Semi-intact Preparation of the Mouse Vestibular Sensory Epithelium for Electrophysiology and High-resolution Two-photon Microscopy
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Mechanoelectrical transducer has discrete conductances in the chick vestibular hair cell

H Ohmori

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    |March 1, 1984
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