Intractable and rare diseases research in Asia

BioScience Trends

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 48-51

  Song, Peipei ^a   Gao, Jianjun ^a   Inagaki, Yoshinori ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a   Tang, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Legislation; Orphan diseases; Orphan drugs; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG MANUFACTURE; HUMAN; RARE DISEASE;

ASIA; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; ORPHAN DRUG PRODUCTION; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 84862310230     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2012.v6.2.48     Document Type: Article

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