Assessing copper status - a review

Nutrition & Food Science

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 229-232

  Turley, E ^a   McKeown, A ^a   Harvey, L ^b   Fairweather tait, S J ^b   Crews, H M ^b   Strain, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet; Health; Nutrition; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133147     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00346659710180361     Document Type: Article

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