Are we becoming less disposable?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 2-6

  Westendorp, Rudi G J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DNA; PHYTOESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL GROWTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COST OF REPRODUCTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERTILITY; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFERTILITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 1242276200     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400059     Document Type: Article

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