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Comment
. 2010 Jun 16;98(12):3102-3; discussion 3104-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.03.030.

Cardiac muscle is not a uniform syncytium

Robin Mark Shaw  1 , Yoram Rudy
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Cardiac muscle is not a uniform syncytium

Robin Mark Shaw et al. Biophys J. .
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