The question of how drugs pass from the gastrointestinal tract into the bloodstream is of vital interest to the pharmacologist and the medicinal chemist, but until recently little progress has been made in unravelling this seemingly complex problem. The literature abounds with reports of the absorption of drugs, but the 23 343
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