Chronic feeding of a low boron diet adversely affects reproduction and development in Xenopus laevis

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2055-2060

  Fort, Douglas J ^a   Stover, Enos L ^a   Strong, Philip L ^c   Murray, F Jay ^b   Keen, Carl L ^d  

^a The Stover Group   (United States)

^b Murray and Associates   (United States)

^c Rio Tinto Group   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Nutritional essentiality; Reproduction; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

BORON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DIET; EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; REPRODUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RODENTIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032702848     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/129.11.2055     Document Type: Article

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