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The transport of iron and copper across the cell membrane: different mechanisms for different metals?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Harry J. McArdle
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Department of Child Health, Centre for Research into Human Development, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD1 9SY
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Symposium on ‘Micronutrient transport processes’
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1992

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