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Fuel selection by the kidney: adaptation to starvation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Gabriel Baverel ,
Bernard Ferrier  and
Mireille Martin
Gabriel Baverel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Métabolique et Rénale, Faculté de Médecine Alexis Carrel, 12 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
Bernard Ferrier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Métabolique et Rénale, Faculté de Médecine Alexis Carrel, 12 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
Mireille Martin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physiopathologie Métabolique et Rénale, Faculté de Médecine Alexis Carrel, 12 rue Guillaume Paradin, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 197 - 212
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