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Combined clinical and basic science seminar| Volume 60, ISSUE 1, P117-126, January 1976

The metabolic events of starvation

  • Christopher D. Saudek
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    Requests for reprints should be addressed to Dr. Christopher D. Saudek, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021.
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    New York, New York USA
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  • Philip Felig
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    New Haven, Connecticut USA
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    1 From the Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, and the Cornell Clinical Research Center, Adult Unit, New York, New York.
    2 From the Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and Yale Clinical Research Center, New Haven, Connecticut.
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