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Pregnancy, parturition and neonatal development: interactions between nutrition and thyroid hormones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Michael E. Symonds
Michael E. Symonds
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School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 2AJ
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The Nutrition Society 1994 Silver Medal Lecture
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , July 1995 , pp. 329 - 343
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