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Victor M Meidan1, Bozena B Michniak

  • 1Laboratory for Drug Delivery, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 111 Lock Street, Newark, NJ 07103, USA. vmeidan@hotmail.com

American Journal of Therapeutics
|July 22, 2004
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