Minimum thiamin requirement of weanling Sprague-Dawley outbred rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 167-170

  Rains, Tia M ^a   Emmert, Jason L ^a   Baker, David H ^a   Shay, Neil F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

growth requirement; liver transketolase; rats; thiamin

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; THIAMINE; TRANSKETOLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; RAT; VITAMIN INTAKE; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0031024210     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/127.1.167     Document Type: Article

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