Improving infant milk formulas: Near the end of the trail for the holy grail?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 307-310

  Weaver, Lawrence T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BILE ACID; CALCIUM; CARBOHYDRATE; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; FUCOSE; GLYCEROL; GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; LACTOFERRIN; LACTOSE; MAGNESIUM; MALTODEXTRIN; MONOSACCHARIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PALMITIC ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PREBIOTIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATOPY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; FECES MICROFLORA; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BABY FOOD; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOTE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 0042354685     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005176-200303000-00002     Document Type: Editorial

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