Nutritional PharmEcology: Doses, nutrients, toxins, and medicines

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-337

  Raubenheimer, David ^a   Simpson, Stephen James ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 76149136930     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icp050     Document Type: Article

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