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Published in J Pharm Sci on March 01, 2009

Authors

Kishor M Wasan1, Sheila J Thornton, Ian Bell, Rebecca E Goulding, Michael Gretes, Andrew P Gray, Robert E W Hancock, Barbara Campbell

Author Affiliations

1: The University of British Columbia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 2146 East Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 123. kwasan@interchange.ubc.ca

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