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Subham Banerjee1, Pronobesh Chattopadhyay2, Animesh Ghosh3

  • 1Division of Pharmaceutical Technology, Defence Research Laboratory, Tezpur 784 001, Assam, India; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, 835 215 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.

European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences : Official Journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
|February 18, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
(±)-Anatoxin AEserineNeuroprotectionPralidoxime chlorideProphylacticTransdermal patch

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