Effects of dietary salt and fat on taurine excretion in healthy and diseased rats

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 583, Issue , 2006, Pages 173-180

  Mozaffari, Mahmood S ^a   Abdelsayed, Rafik ^c   Patel, Champa ^c   Schaffer, Stephen W ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 84934439009     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-33504-9_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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