Contractile activation in skeletal muscle

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology - Tập 29 - Trang 197-224 - 1976
L.L. Costantin1
1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110 USA

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