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Membrane Potentials, Synaptic Responses, Neuronal Circuitry, Neuromodulation and Muscle Histology Using the Crayfish: Student Laboratory Exercises
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Average electrostatic potential between the filaments in striated muscle and its relation to a simple Donnan

G R Naylor

    Biophysical Journal
    |May 1, 1982
    PubMed

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