The Pharmacogenetics of the Antimalarial Amodiaquine

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  • José Pedro Gil
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José Pedro Gil1,2,3 1Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Drug Resistance Unit, Division of Pharmacogenetics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 2Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Algarve IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, The Centre for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine, Gambelas, 3Department of Biological Sciences, The Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, the New York State University, NY, 1Sweden 2Portugal 3USA

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تاریخ انتشار 2012