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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
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Research Article

Bosentan, a new endothelin receptor antagonist: prediction of the systemic plasma clearance in man from combined in vivo and in vitro data

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Pages 1381-1390 | Received 29 May 1995, Published online: 22 Sep 2008

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