Food-pharma convergence in medical nutrition - Best of both worlds?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Weenen, Tamar C ^a,b   Ramezanpour, Bahar ^c   Pronker, Esther S ^d   Commandeur, Harry ^a,e   Claassen, Eric ^b,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ATHENA INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d ViroCtinics Biosciences BV   (Netherlands)

^e NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DRUG INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDUSTRY; MEDICAL NUTRITION INDUSTRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PATENT;

ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NUTRITION THERAPY; PATENTS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84892760502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082609     Document Type: Article

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