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Vedant Modgill1, Tarun Garg1, Amit Kumar Goyal1

  • 1a Department of Pharmaceutics , ISF College of Pharmacy , Moga , Punjab , India.

Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology
|June 11, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
ciprofloxacindrug permeabilitynanofiberspolyvinyl alcohol

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