Whole blood selenium content in pregnant women

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 227, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 139-143

  Ferrer, Emilia ^a   Alegría, Amparo ^a   Barberá, Reyes ^a   Farré, Rosaura ^a   Lagarda, Maria Jesús ^a   Monleon, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hydride generation; Pregnancy; Selenium; Spectrometry; Whole blood

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; REFERENCE VALUES; SELENIUM; SPAIN;

VALENCIA;

EID: 0032927551     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00008-X     Document Type: Article

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