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Signaling across Myoendothelial Gap Junctions—Fact or fiction?

Cor de Wit Institut für Physiologie, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Markus Boettcher Institut für Physiologie, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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Volker J. Schmidt Institut für Physiologie, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
Pages 231-245 | Received 03 Apr 2008, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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