How to close a gap junction channel. Efficacies and potencies of uncoupling agents.

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Published in Methods Mol Biol on January 01, 2001

Authors

R Rozental1, M Srinivas, D C Spray

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1: Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.

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