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Original Article

Altered Sensitivity to Sodium Channel-Specific Neurotoxins in Cultured Neurons from Temperature-Sensitive Paralytic Mutants of Drosophila

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Pages 225-238 | Received 19 Mar 1984, Accepted 24 May 1984, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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