Human adult-onset lactase decline: An update

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 56, Issue 1 I, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Lee, Ming Fen ^a   Krasinski, Stephen D ^b,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Sch of Nutrition Science and Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE; LACTOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; CALCIUM ABSORPTION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIET RESTRICTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH ACID; STOMACH EMPTYING; TATA BOX;

EID: 0031938689     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1998.tb01652.x     Document Type: Review

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