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Recording Cardiac Potassium Currents with the Whole-Cell Voltage Clamp Technique

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    Erich Wettwer & Ursula Ravens

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Wettwer, E., Ravens, U. (2005). Recording Cardiac Potassium Currents with the Whole-Cell Voltage Clamp Technique. In: Dhein, S., Mohr, F.W., Delmar, M. (eds) Practical Methods in Cardiovascular Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26574-0_18

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