Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages vii-x , March 2006

Preface

  • Philippa Darbre, BSc (Hons), PhD (Senior Lecturer in Oncology)

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2005.09.010

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages vii-x , March 2006

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