Environmental contaminants and impacts on healthy and successful pregnancies

Environmental Impacts on Reproductive Health and Fertility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-144

  Slama, Rémy ^a   Cordier, Sylvaine ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

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EID: 84862213705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511674686.011     Document Type: Chapter

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