Essential fatty acids in visual and brain development

Lipids

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 885-895

  Uauy, Ricardo ^a,b   Hoffman, Dennis R ^b   Peirano, Patricio ^c   Birch, David G ^c   Birch, Eileen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; NUTRITION; TISSUE; VISION;

HUMAN INFANTS; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTORS;

FATTY ACIDS;

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; ICOSANOID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; RHODOPSIN; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADIPOCYTE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BIOPHYSICS; BOTTLE FEEDING; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BREAST FEEDING; CELL MEMBRANE; COGNITION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEURONS;

EID: 0035160408     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-001-0798-1     Document Type: Article

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