Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 993-999 , October 2010

Effects of maternal undernutrition during lactation on estrogen and androgen receptor expressions in rat ovary at puberty

Received 3 March 2009 ,Accepted 29 September 2009.

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 This work was supported by the agencies CNPq (Brazilian Council of Science and Technology, www.cnpq.br) and FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Scientific Research, www.faperj.br).

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.09.027

Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 993-999 , October 2010

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