Whole Animal Experiments Should Be More Like Human Randomized Controlled Trials
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1 FOODplus Research Centre, School of Agriculture Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Australia, 2 Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3 Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 Gravida, National Centre for Growth and Development, New Zealand, 5 Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 6 Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013