Regular ArticleMetformin is a Superior Substrate for Renal Organic Cation Transporter OCT2 rather than Hepatic OCT1
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This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid for Research on Advanced Medical Technology from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan, by a Japan Health Science Foundation “Research on Health Sciences Focusing on Drug Innovation”, by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Japan, and by the 21st Century COE program “Knowledge Information Infrastructure for Genome Science”. H. Ueo was supported as a Teaching Assistant by the 21st Century COE program “Knowledge Information Infrastructure for Genome Science”.
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