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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
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Original Article

Studies on the metabolic fate of valproic acid in the rat using stable isotope techniques

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Pages 1147-1157 | Received 08 Jul 1986, Published online: 30 Sep 2009

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