Dietary astragalus stems polysaccharides improve antioxidant capacity and lactation performance in dairy goats through integrated metabolomic and mechanistic analyses

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Dietary astragalus stems polysaccharides improve antioxidant capacity and lactation performance in dairy goats through integrated metabolomic and mechanistic analyses

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