Prebiotics and nutrition in the elderly: The concept of healthy ageing

Handbook of Prebiotics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 405-420

  Rowland, Ian ^a   Gill, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

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