Mammalian metabolism of flax lignans

Flax: The Genus Linum

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 230-242

  Muir, Alister D ^a   Westcott, Neil D ^a  

^a SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

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