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Effects of saturating metabolic uptake on space profiles and tracer kinetics

C A Goresky, G G Bach, C P Rose

    The American Journal of Physiology
    |February 1, 1983
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    tracer distributionmetabolic saturationbarrier effectspharmacokinetic modeling

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