Correction factors for 'binding' studies; model systems for GABA binding to a synaptosomal-mitochondrial fraction of rat cerebral cortex.

E Somoza; F V DeFeudis

doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1978.tb07040.x

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Correction factors for 'binding' studies; model systems for GABA binding to a synaptosomal-mitochondrial fraction of rat cerebral cortex.

E Somoza·F V DeFeudis

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E Somoza, F V DeFeudis. 1978. Correction factors for 'binding' studies; model systems for GABA binding to a synaptosomal-mitochondrial fraction of rat cerebral cortex.. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1978.tb07040.x

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