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. 2022 Jul;62(7):829-832.
doi: 10.1002/jcph.2036. Epub 2022 Mar 2.

Will the Pharmacologically Meaningful Half-Life Please Stand Up?

Philip Chaikin  1 , Sudhakar M Pai  2
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Will the Pharmacologically Meaningful Half-Life Please Stand Up?

Philip Chaikin et al. J Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Jul.
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Keywords: distribution; multi-compartment models; pharmacokinetics; pharmacologically relevant half life; re-distribution.

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