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M Dumortier1, G Thöni, J F Brun

  • 1Service Central de Physiologie Clinique, Centre d'Exploration et de Réadaptation des Anomalies du Métabolisme Musculaire, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier Cedex 5, France. muriel_dum@yahoo.fr

International Journal of Obesity (2005)
|May 27, 2005
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