The pharmacokinetics of ethosuximide enantiomers in the rat

Biopharmaceutics and Drug Disposition

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 83-89

  Mifsud, J ^a,b   Collier, P S ^a   Millership, J S ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Malta)

Author keywords

Chiral pharmacokinetics; Ethosuximide enantiomers; Gas chromatography; Rat

Indexed keywords

DRUG METABOLITE; ETHOSUXIMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIRAL CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACEMIC MIXTURE; RAT; STANDARD; STEREOCHEMISTRY; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALIBRATION; ETHOSUXIMIDE; HALF-LIFE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0035666776     PISSN: 01422782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdd.266     Document Type: Article

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