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Chewing Qat leaves slows the whole gut transit time
A A Gunaid1, F M Al-Khally, N A Hassan
1Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Sana'a, Sana'a, Republic of Yemen.
Saudi Medical Journal
|September 16, 2016
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