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Wu Yang1, Jinsong Ni, David F Woodward

  • 1Department of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA 92623, USA. yang_wu@allergan.com

Journal of Lipid Research
|September 10, 2005
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