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The small bowel has undergone intense study. Part I of this two-part review of the small bowel focuses on gastrointestinal peptides; intestinal infections and human immunodeficiency virus; drugs; intestinal growth-mucosal proliferation and differentiation; nucleic acids, nucleotides and nucleosides; vitamins and minerals; Whipple's disease; radiation; and early development.
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