Pharmacological studies of Cav3.1 T-type calcium channels using automated patch-clamp techniques
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عنوان ژورنال: General Physiology and Biophysics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0231-5882
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2011_01_100