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Jorma Toppari1,2

  • 1Institute of Biomedicine, Research Centre for Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology, and Centre for Population Health Research, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
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PubMed
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INSL3LC-MS/MSpubertytestis

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