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Evaluation of Drug Sorption to PVC- and Non-PVC-based Tubes in Administration Sets Using a Pump
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Comparison of accelerated and real-time cyclosporine A release testing from poly(l-lactide-co-trimethylene carbonate)
Katarzyna Jelonek1, Janusz Kasperczyk, Piotr Dobrzyński
1Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials, Polish Academy of Sciences, M.Curie-Sklodowskiej 34, 41-819 Zabrze, Poland.
Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica
|January 15, 2011
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