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Study of In Vivo Glucose Metabolism in High-fat Diet-fed Mice Using Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) and Insulin Tolerance Test (ITT)
Published on: January 7, 2018
The effect of test feeds on the plasma lipids
Lancet (London, England)
|November 12, 1960
Abstract
No abstract available in PubMed .
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