Nutritional status affects intestinal carotene cleavage activity and carotene conversion to vitamin A in rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 573-577

  Parvin, Shaik G ^a   Sivakumar, Bhattiprolu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

Author keywords

Protein deficiency; Rats; Vitamin A deficiency; carotene dioxygenase

Indexed keywords

CAROTENE; OXYGENASE; RETINOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; RAT; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034004614     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/130.3.573     Document Type: Article

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