Are Mice and Rats Good ExperimentalModels to Explore Novel Compoundsagainst Cisplatin Induced Nephrotoxicity?
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Copyright: © 2015 EL-Arabey AA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Amr Ahmed EL-Arabey, Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, E-mail: [email protected]
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