Structure of ionotropic glutamate receptors

Glutamate and GABA Receptors and Transporters: Structure, Function and Pharmacology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 41-55

  Egebjerg, Jan ^a   Jensen, Henrik S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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