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A Computerized Test Battery to Study Pharmacodynamic Effects on the Central Nervous System of Cholinergic Drugs in Early Phase Drug Development
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A Computerized Test Battery to Study Pharmacodynamic Effects on the Central Nervous System of Cholinergic Drugs in Early Phase Drug Development

Published on: February 11, 2019

Delayed hypersensitivity to scopolamine delivered by a transdermal device

D J Trozak

    Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
    |August 1, 1985
    PubMed

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