Are salivary glands cell lines in culture a good model for purinergic receptors in salivary glands?
✍ Scribed by Ziv Carmel; Hagai Amsallem; Mourad Métioui; Jean-Paul Dehaye; Arie Moran
- Book ID
- 113989051
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 551 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-9969
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