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Organ/Tissue Preparations for the Assessment of Agonist/Antagonist Activity

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  1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

    Mark Murnin, Sándor Lovas & Richard F. Murphy

  2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK

    James M. Allen

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  1. The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

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Murnin, M., Lovas, S., Allen, J.M., Murphy, R.F. (1997). Organ/Tissue Preparations for the Assessment of Agonist/Antagonist Activity. In: Irvine, G.B., Williams, C.H. (eds) Neuropeptide Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 73. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-399-6:343

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