Zinc modulates a-type potassium currents and neuronal excitability in snail neurons
✍ Scribed by L. Erdélyi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 817 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0272-4340
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