Nonlinear propagation of spherical calcium waves in rat cardiac myocytes.

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Published in Biophys J on March 01, 1996

Authors

M H Wussling1, H Salz

Author Affiliations

1: Julius Bernstein Institute of Physiology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. wussling@med-phys.uni-halle.d400.de

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