The goto-kakizaki rat

Animal Models of Diabetes, Second Edition: Frontiers in Research

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-137

  Östenson, Claes Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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