Effects of maternal vitamin A status on fetal heart and lung: Changes in expression of key developmental genes

American Journal of Physiology

Volumn 275, Issue 6 PART 1, 1998, Pages

  Rees, W D ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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