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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
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Collagen gel immobilization: A useful cell culture technique for long-term metabolic studies on human hepatocytes

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Pages 95-107 | Received 30 Nov 1993, Published online: 27 Aug 2009

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