Vaginal drug delivery: The first uterine pass effect

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 828, Issue , 1997, Pages 285-290

  Bulletti, Carlo ^a   De Ziegler, Dominique ^b   Giacomucci, Evaldo ^a   Polli, Valeria ^a   Rossi, Stefania ^a   Alfieri, Stefania ^a   Flamigni, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Columbia Laboratoires ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; TRITIUM;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; UTERUS;

TRITIUM;

EID: 0030702023     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48549.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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