Naturally occurring chromium compounds in Brewer's yeast and the saltbush plant

Journal of Trace Elements in Experimental Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 111-124

  Mirsky, Nitsa ^a   Aharoni, Anat ^a   Rabinowitz, Claudette ^a   Izhaki, Ido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chromium; Diabetes; Glucose tolerance; Glucose tolerance factor (GTF)

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; GLUCOSE; LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE RESPONSE; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MOUSE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES;

EID: 0032898134     PISSN: 0896548X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-670X(1999)12:2<111::AID-JTRA8>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Conference Paper

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