The use of dried blood spots for concentration assessment in pharmacokinetic evaluations

Pharmacokinetics in Drug Development

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 91-114

  Majumdar, Tapan K ^a   Howard, Danny R ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7937-7_4     Document Type: Chapter

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