Form and function: Impulse propagation in designer cultures of cardiomyocytes

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 171-177

  Rohr, Stephan ^a   Kucera, Jan P ^a   Kléber, André G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0031531473     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiologyonline.1997.12.4.171     Document Type: Article

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