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Fuel selection in brown adipose tissue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Paul Trayhurn
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Division of Biochemical Sciences, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB2 9SB
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1995

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