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Toxicogenomics in drug discovery and development: mechanistic analysis of compound/class-dependent effects using the

Brigitte Ganter1, Ronald D Snyder, Donald N Halbert

  • 1Iconix Biosciences, 325 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View, California, USA.

Pharmacogenomics
|October 24, 2006
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