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Hao Lou1,2, Michael J Hageman3,4

  • 1Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66047, USA. lou0@ku.edu.

AAPS Pharmscitech
|March 12, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
USP apparatus IIcomputational fluid dynamicscomputational simulationsurface erosionsustained releasetablet dissolution testing

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