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. 1959 Mar 12;145(3):529–546. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006159

The time courses of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic actions

D R Curtis, J C Eccles
PMCID: PMC1356959  PMID: 13642318

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