A Discourse on Human Hair Fibers and Reflections on the Conservation of Drug Molecules

    June 1996 in “ International Journal of Legal Medicine ”
    Lucia Pötsch
    Studysummary This article discusses how drug molecules integrate into hair fibers, focusing on biological transport mechanisms and physicochemical factors, but reports no new experimental findings.
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