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. 1961 May;40(5):753–782. doi: 10.1172/JCI104310

THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF IRON KINETICS AND HEMOGLOBIN SYNTHESIS IN HUMAN SUBJECTS*

Myron Pollycove 1,2,3,4, Robert Mortimer 1,2,3,4
PMCID: PMC290786  PMID: 13736888

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