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Oral glucose tolerance test: an inhibitory or a stimulatory input to growth hormone secretion?

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Valcavi, R. Oral glucose tolerance test: an inhibitory or a stimulatory input to growth hormone secretion?. J Endocrinol Invest 19, 253–255 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03349877

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