Amino acids: Biochemistry and nutrition

Amino Acids: Biochemistry and Nutrition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-459

  Wu, Guoyao ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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