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The Teale Lecture Fetal. Growth Control: The Role of Insulin and Related Peptides

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Sir Francis Teale, in whose memory this lecture is held, was a bacteriologist with wide-ranging interests. In taking as my theme ‘Fetal growth control’ I would be flattered to imagine that his curiosity as a biologist would be aroused were he with us today, for I shall endeavour in this review to focus on mechanisms that may be of relevance to the general control of cellular growth.

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Milner, R.D.G. (1984). The Teale Lecture Fetal. Growth Control: The Role of Insulin and Related Peptides. In: Aynsley-Green, A. (eds) Paediatric Endocrinology in Clinical Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5610-0_8

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