Bone Chemistry and Trace Element Analysis

Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 443-460

  Burton, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary calcium; Hydroxylapatite, or hydroxy calcium phosphate; Mineral fraction of bone

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952298321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470245842.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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