A physical model of nicotinic ACh receptor kinetics
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Ewa Nurowska1∗, Mykola Bratiichuk2†, Beata Dworakowska, Roman J. Nowak Department of Biophysics, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), 02-776 Warsaw, Poland. Institute of Mathematics, Department of Probabilistic and Econometry, The Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. and Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland. (Dated: December 31, 2008)
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