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It has been demonstrated that use of a two- term Taylor expansion in simplifying the calculation of absorption rates of drugs in multicompartmental systems may lead to serious errors. These errors are prevented by not using the Taylor expansion.
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Boxenbaum, H.G., Kaplan, S.A. Potential source of error in absorption rate calculations. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics 3, 257–264 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066921
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066921