New functional foods for age-related diseases

Functional Foods, Ageing and Degenerative Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 57-80

  Rivera, D ^a   Obon C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-85573-725-9.50007-1     Document Type: Chapter

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