Aphrodite, sex and salt - From butterfly to man

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2154-2161

  Moinier, Bernard M ^a   Drüeke, Tilman B ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Early development; History; Pregnancy; Reproduction; Sodium

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOOD PRESERVATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTATION; LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SALT INTAKE; SEXUALITY; SODIUM RESTRICTION;

ANIMALS; APHRODISIACS; BUTTERFLIES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SODIUM, DIETARY;

EID: 46849088370     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm956     Document Type: Review

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