Effect of folic acid supplementation on plasma zinc concentrations of young women

Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 522-523

  Green, Timothy J ^a   Skeaff, C Murray ^b   Whiting, Susan J ^b   Gibson, Rosalind S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Folic acid; Plasma zinc; Red cell folate; Supplements; Women; Zinc

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; PLACEBO; ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DOSE CALCULATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; REPRODUCTION; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0038777168     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(02)01100-0     Document Type: Article

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