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Fletcher, J.M., Falconer, J. & Bassett, J.M. The relationship of body and placental weight to plasma leavels of insulin and other hormones during development in fetal rabbits. Diabetologia 23, 124–130 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271173
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