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GABA-activated Single-channel and Tonic Currents in Rat Brain Slices
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Published on: July 17, 2011

[Hemodynamic mechanism of the hypotensive action of beta-phenyl-GABA esters (phenibut)]

I N Tiurenkov

    Farmakologiia I Toksikologiia
    |January 1, 1983
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