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Sleeping to fuel the immune system: mammalian sleep and resistance to parasites

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Book ID: 115002781
Publisher: BioMed Central
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 339 KB
Volume: 9
Category: Article
ISSN: 1471-2148
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-9-8

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