Steroid use and human performance: Lessons for integrative biologists

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 354-364

  Husak, Jerry F ^a,c   Irschick, Duncan J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

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ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349440908     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp015     Document Type: Article

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