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Etorphine Is an Opiate Analgesic Physicochemically Suited to Transdermal Delivery

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  1. Hoo-Kyun Choi

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  1. College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1065

    Lynn M. Jolicoeur, Hoo-Kyun Choi & Gordon L. Flynn

  2. Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109

    M. Reza Nassiri & Charles Shipman Jr

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Jolicoeur, L.M., Nassiri, M.R., Shipman Jr, C. et al. Etorphine Is an Opiate Analgesic Physicochemically Suited to Transdermal Delivery. Pharm Res 9, 963–965 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015877621976

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