Perinatal iron deficiency alters the neurochemical profile of the developing rat hippocampus

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3215-3221

  Rao, Raghavendra ^a,b   Tkac, Ivan ^a,b   Townsend, Elise L ^b   Gruetter, Rolf ^a,b   Georgieff, Michael K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Iron; Neurochemical profile; NMR spectroscopy; Perinatal iron deficiency

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; CREATINE PHOSPHATE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IRON; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ENERGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; MYELINATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141639898     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.10.3215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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