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A comment on the analysis of bell-shaped dose-response curves

M Kasai1

  • 1Division of Biophysical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan.

The Japanese Journal of Physiology
|May 20, 1998
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