Fetal programming of skeletal muscle development

Applied Muscle Biology and Meat Science

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-96

  Du, Min ^a   Zhu, Meijun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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