Nerves and Intestinal Mast Cells Modulate Responses to Enterotoxins

News in Physiological Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 58-63

  Pothoulakis, Charalabos ^a   Castagliuolo, Ignazio ^a   LaMont, J Thomas ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0032390474     PISSN: 08861714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiologyonline.1998.13.2.58     Document Type: Article

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