Calcium channel blockers and Merkel cells

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue C, 1988, Pages 37-42

  Pacitti, E G ^a   Findlater, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COBALT; NEUROPEPTIDE; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; NONHUMAN; SAPHENOUS NERVE;

EID: 0002324276     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)62995-7     Document Type: Article

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