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Taurine Nutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2007

K. C. Hayes
K. C. Hayes
Affiliation:
Foster Biomedical Research Laboratory, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254, USA
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Nutrition Research Reviews , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 99 - 113
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1988

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