The Membrane Components of Crustacean Neuromuscular Systems
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I N T R O D U C T I O N Pharmacological data were among the evidence which led to the view that the over-all electrophysiological manifestations of different excitable membranes are composites of a number of independently assorting electrogenic processes (Grundfest, 1961 a, b). Subsequently available data (cf. Grundfest, 1963, 1966 a, b) have reenforced this view, that the excitable membrane is a
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