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Analyzing Beneficial Effects of Nutritional Supplements on Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Functions During Experimental Colitis
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Analyzing Beneficial Effects of Nutritional Supplements on Intestinal Epithelial Barrier Functions During Experimental Colitis

Published on: January 5, 2017

[Prophylactic effects of a long-term therapy with vitamin A in stress ulcer? (author's transl)]

J Wedell, R Grobe, B Nagel

    Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
    |February 13, 1976
    PubMed

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