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Xenobiotica
the fate of foreign compounds in biological systems
Volume 17, 1987 - Issue 11
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The chemical nature of the urinary odour produced by man after asparagus ingestion

R. H. Waring Department of Biochemistry, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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S. C. Mitchell Department of Pharmacology, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, W2, 1PG, UK
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G. R. Fenwick AFRC Institute for Food Research, Norwich Laboratory, Norwich, NR4 7UA, UK
Pages 1363-1371 | Received 17 Aug 1986, Published online: 30 Sep 2009

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