Visual evoked potentials and dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in preterm infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1996, Pages

  Faldella, Giacomo ^a   Govoni, Marina ^b   Alessandroni, Rosina ^a   Marchiani, Enrico ^a   Salvioli, Gian Paolo ^a   Biagi, Pier Luigi ^c   Spanò, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Feto Matern and Devmtl Medicine

^c Department of Biochemistry ^*

Author keywords

Brainstem acoustic evoked potentials; Breast milk; Flash electroretinogram; Formula; Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

BREAST FEEDING; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MILK, HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTION TIME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0029839386     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.75.2.F108     Document Type: Article

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