Do healthy premature infants fed breast milk need vitamin E supplementation: α- and γ-tocopherol levels in blood components and buccal mucosal cells

Pediatric Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-59

  Kaempf, Daisy E ^a   Linderkamp, Otwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHEEK MUCOSA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0031868043     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199807000-00009     Document Type: Article

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