Intestinal Motility: A Computer Simulation of the Effects of Drugs on Colonic Peristalsis, for Teaching Undergraduate Pharmacology Students

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-19

  Dewhurst, David ^a   Leathard, Helen ^b   Ullyott, Richard ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAL; Intestinal motility; Pharmacology teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039088302     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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