Biological and toxicological considerations of dietary sulfur

Reviews in Food and Nutrition Toxicity

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-104

  Komarnisky, Lioudmila A ^a   Basu, Tapan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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