Nutritional and therapeutic potential of Spirulina.

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2005-09-30

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

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  DOI 10.2174/138920105774370607PMID 16248810
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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