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Published on: October 27, 2015

Effect of folate deficiency on the digestive and absorptive functions of intestinal epithelium in rats

S Ansari, P K Dudeja, A Mahmood

    Acta Vitaminologica Et Enzymologica
    |January 1, 1981
    PubMed

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