Evaluation of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase enzymes and their cofactors in egyptian children with Down's syndrome

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-28

  Meguid, N A ^a   Kholoussi, N M ^a   Afifi, H H ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antioxidant system; Developmental fields; Down's syndrome; Trace elements; Translocation trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SELENIUM; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; DOWN SYNDROME; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOSAICISM; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRISOMY 21; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COENZYMES; COPPER; DOWN SYNDROME; EGYPT; ERYTHROCYTES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MALE; SELENIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0034905452     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/BTER:81:1:21     Document Type: Article

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