Experimental approaches to the study of volatile anesthetic–protein interactions

Molecular Bases of Anesthesia

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 37-68

  Johansson, Jonas S ^a   Eckenhoff, Roderic G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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