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Energy and substrate requirements of the placenta and fetus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

William W Hay Jr
Affiliation:
Division of Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Symposium on ‘Recent research on the placenta’
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The Nutrition Society

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