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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
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Maternal genetic effects on neonatal susceptibility to oxidative damage from environmental tobacco smoke
1Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, 7-206, 3-Ga Shinheung-Dong, Jung-Gu, Inchon, 400-103, South Korea. ychong@inha.ac.kr
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
|April 20, 2001
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