Abstract
CERTAIN medicaments cannot be administered orally without either irritating the stomach tissues or becoming destroyed by the gastric juice. To avoid these effects they are given in pills with enteric coatings. Such coatings are supposed to pass the stomach undissolved and to dissolve only in the small intestines.
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LARK-HOROVITZ, K., LENG, H. Radioactive Indicators, Enteric Coatings and Intestinal Absorption. Nature 147, 580–581 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147580a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147580a0
