Milk carnitine affects organ carnitine concentration in newborn rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1673-1682

  Flores, Carlos A ^a   Hu, Caroline ^a   Edmon, John ^b   Koldovsky, Otakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

carnitine; intestinal transport; metabolism; rats

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HEART; LIVER; MILK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029894798     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/126.6.1673     Document Type: Article

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