Studies of the metabolism and disposition of most drugs or other xenobiotics share one common feature: the need for an analytical method to measure the xenobiotic and/or its biotransformation products in biosamples. Although chromatographic methods such as GC and HPLC are important and preferred by some laboratories, initial investigations of new xenobiotic entities are often conducted using radiolabeled compounds, and, in such instances, TLC assay methods are frequently selected.
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