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Food, obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes: are there molecular links?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Johannes B. Prins
Johannes B. Prins
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Departments of Medicine and Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2GR
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Symposium on ‘Nutrition and diabetes’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , November 1997 , pp. 889 - 898
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