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Transepithelial transport and its hormonal control in toad bladder

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From Departments of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

The author's studies reported in this review have been generously supported by grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. and by the United States Public Healt Service Research Grants No. HE 06 664 from the National Heart Institute and AM 04 50t from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.

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Leaf, A. Transepithelial transport and its hormonal control in toad bladder. Ergebnisse der Physiologie und exper. Pharmakologie 56, 216–263 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02270552

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