Antioxidant content of the milk of nigerian women and the sera of their exclusively breast-fed infants

Nutrition Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 121-128

  VanderJagt, Dorothy J ^a   Okolo, Seline N ^b   Costanza, Angela ^a   Blackwell, Walter ^c   Glew, Robert H ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

^c Tricore Laboratories   (United States)

^d Tel: +1 505 272 2362 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Exclusively breast fed infants; Fulani; Lactating women; Milk; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTATION; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035103027     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(00)00261-X     Document Type: Article

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