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Two Components of the Cardiac Action Potential

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  1. Institute of Biophysics, University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    A. PAES DE CARVALHO

  2. Department of Pharmacology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York

    B. F. HOFFMAN

  3. Department of Physiology, Villanova University, Pennsylvania

    W. B. LANGAN

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DE CARVALHO, A., HOFFMAN, B. & LANGAN, W. Two Components of the Cardiac Action Potential. Nature 211, 938–940 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211938a0

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