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. 1959 Mar 3;145(2):289–325. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006143

Transmission at the giant motor synapses of the crayfish

E J Furshpan, D D Potter
PMCID: PMC1356828  PMID: 13642302

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