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Maintenance protein requirements: the need for conceptual re-evaluation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

D. J. Millward
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 4 St Pancras Way, London NWI 2PE
G. M. Price
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 4 St Pancras Way, London NWI 2PE
P. J. H. Pacy
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Group, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
D. Halliday
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Group, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ
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Type
Symposium on ‘Protein requirements’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1990

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