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Editorial
. 2019 Apr;176(8):985-987.
doi: 10.1111/bph.14588.

Oiling the wheels of discovery

Roderick J Flower  1
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Editorial

Oiling the wheels of discovery

Roderick J Flower. Br J Pharmacol. 2019 Apr.

Abstract

This article is part of a themed section on Eicosanoids 35 years from the 1982 Nobel: where are we now? To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v176.8/issuetoc.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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