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Why are dietary nucleotides essential nutrients?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

George K. Grimble
George K. Grimble
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Addictive Behaviour CentreRoehampton Institute London Whitelands CollegeWest HillLondonSW15 3SN
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 76 , Issue 4 , October 1996 , pp. 475 - 478
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1996

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