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Quantitating Iron Transport Across the Mouse Placenta In Vivo Using Nonradioactive Iron Isotopes
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Transferrin receptor level as surrogate peripheral blood marker of iron deficiency states
Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
|November 22, 2008
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