Adipose tissue fatty acids and size and number of fat cells from birth to 9 years of age - A cross-sectional study in 96 boys

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1395-1401

  Soriguer Escofet, F J C ^a,b   Esteva De Antonio, I ^a   Tinahones, F J ^a   Pareja, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHILD; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LIPID COMPOSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKINFOLD; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ADIPOCYTE; AGE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FAT INTAKE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

FATTY ACID;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0030294209     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0026-0495(96)90121-3     Document Type: Article

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