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Quantitative assessment of altered rectal mucosal permeability due to rectally applied nonoxynol-9, biopsy, and

Edward J Fuchs1, Lisa A Grohskopf, Linda A Lee

  • 1Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-5554, USA. ejfuchs@jhmi.edu

The Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 18, 2013
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