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Table 1. Classification of surfactants long with suitable examples.
Table 2. Commercially available hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfactants (Griffin, Citation1955).
Table 3. Common uses of surfactant categories with their features (Dickinson, Citation1992; Solans & Kunieda, Citation1996).
Table 4. Advanced formulations on the basis of P-gp modulation.
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