Properties of human milk and their relationship with maternal nutrition

Early Human Development

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Emmett, Pauline M ^a   Rogers, Imogen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Carbohydrate; Cows' milk; Fat; Formula milk; Immunity; Micronutrients; Non protein nitrogen; Protein; Volume

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FATTY ACID; FIBRONECTIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTOSE; MILK PROTEIN; MINERAL; NITROGEN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; VITAMIN; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CALORIC INTAKE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REVIEW;

EID: 0030697202     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(97)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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