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Cytosolic Calcium Measurements in Renal Epithelial Cells by Flow Cytometry
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Published on: October 28, 2014

Cytosolic free calcium levels in rabbit proximal kidney tubules

E Murphy, L J Mandel

    The American Journal of Physiology
    |January 1, 1982
    PubMed

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