Excess zinc associated with severe progressive cholestasis in Cree and Ojibwa-Cree children

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9005, 1996, Pages 866-868

  Phillips, M James ^a,c   Ackerley, Cameron A ^a   Superina, Riccardo A ^a   Roberts, Eve A ^a   Filler, Robert M ^a   Levy, Gary A ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CANADA; CHILD; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER LYSOSOME; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0029876159     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)91347-1     Document Type: Article

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