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Reversible Energy Transformation with Filaments Prepared from a Natural Muscle

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KUHN, W., TOTH, I. & EBNER, G. Reversible Energy Transformation with Filaments Prepared from a Natural Muscle. Nature 195, 1164–1167 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951164a0

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