Neonatal dietary zinc deficiency in artificially reared rat pups retards behavioral development and interacts with essential fatty acid deficiency to alter liver and brain fatty acid composition

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1773-1781

  Wauben, Ine P M ^a   Xing, Hua Cheng ^a   Wainwright, Patricia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arachidonic acid; Artificially reared rat pups; Brain development; Docosahexanoic acid; EFA deficiency; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; ZINC;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; LIPID BRAIN LEVEL; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEWBORN; RAT; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ZINC METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032867144     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/129.10.1773     Document Type: Article

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