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Biological Half-lives of the Antibiotic Lincomycin Observed in Repetitive Experiments in the same Subjects

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SOME information on the disappearance half-time of lincomycin (the registered trade-mark of the Upjohn Company is ‘Lincocin’) has been reported by Ma, Lim and Nodine1 and by Wagner and Alway2.

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  1. Ma, Pearl, Lim, M., and Nodine, J. H., Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1963, pp. 183–188.

  2. Wagner, J. G., and Alway, C. D., Nature, 201, 1101 (1964).

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WAGNER, J., NORTHAM, J. & SOKOLSKI, W. Biological Half-lives of the Antibiotic Lincomycin Observed in Repetitive Experiments in the same Subjects. Nature 207, 201–202 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207201a0

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