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Chronic undernutrition and metabolic adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

P. S. Shetty
P. S. Shetty
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Nutrition Research Centre, Department of Physiology, St John's Medical College, Bangalore 560 034, India
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , August 1993 , pp. 267 - 284
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