Researching chemicals in human milk can be conducted without discouraging breastfeeding.
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1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidade de Brasília, 70919-970 Brasília, DF, BRAZIL. 2 Division of the National Toxicology Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. 3 LaKind Associates, LLC, Catonsville, MD, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. 5 Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bosnian journal of basic medical sciences
دوره 12 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012