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The transport of vitamin C and effects of disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

C. J. Schorah
C. J. Schorah
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Department of Chemical Pathology and Immunology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
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Symposium on ‘Micronutrient transport processes’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , August 1992 , pp. 189 - 198
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1992

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