Role of essential fatty acids in the function of the developing nervous system

Lipids

Volumn 31, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Uauy, Ricardo ^a,b   Peirano, Patricio ^a   Hoffman, Dennis ^b   Mena, Patricia ^a   Birch, David ^b   Birch, Eileen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMATES;

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISORDERS OF PEROXISOMAL FUNCTIONS; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; HEART RHYTHM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURONAL CEROID LIPOFUSCINOSIS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; ZELLWEGER SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIETARY FATS, UNSATURATED; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA;

EID: 0029960056     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02637071     Document Type: Article

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