Energy evaluation of MW effects on ACh receptor channels with parallel computing

Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 69-79

  Apollonio, Francesca ^a   D'Inzeo, Guglielmo ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Institute of Electronics   (Italy)

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