Effect of feeding maize/legume mixtures on biochemical indices in rats

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 47, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 170-175

  Obatolu, Veronica A ^a,b   Ketiku, A ^a   Adebowale, E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Electrolytes; Hematological; Protein energy malnutrition; Serum enzymes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CASEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLOBULIN; PROTEIN; SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COWPEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; ELEMENTAL DIET; FEEDING; LEGUME; LEUKOCYTE; MAIZE; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DIET; RAT; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SOYBEAN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; DIET; DIETARY PROTEINS; ELECTROLYTES; ENZYMES; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FABACEAE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SERUM ALBUMIN; ZEA MAYS;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037908889     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070041     Document Type: Article

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