Lactase decline in weaning rats is regulated at the transcriptional level and not caused by termination of milk ingestion

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1737-1743

  Motohashi, Yasuko ^a   Fukushima, Akiko ^a,c   Kondo, Takashi ^b,d   Sakuma, Keiko ^a  

^a KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFANT NUTRITION; MILK; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WEANING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030923470     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/127.9.1737     Document Type: Article

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