Relationship of leptin and insulin-like growth factor
✍ Scribed by Nesrin Besbas; Fatih Ozaltin; Turgay Coşkun; Sıla Özalp; Umit Saatçi; Aysin Bakkaloğlu; A.Meguid Nahas
- Book ID
- 106159300
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-041X
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