Infant intake of fatty acids from human milk over the first year of lactation

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 979-986

  Mitoulas, Leon R ^a   Gurrin, Lyle C ^a   Doherty, Dorota A ^a   Sherriff, Jillian L ^b   Hartmann, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; Fatty acids; Human milk lipids; Infant nutrition; Sampling protocols

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT CONTENT; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; LACTATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MILK PRODUCTION; MOTHER; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BREAST FEEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; LACTATION; LINOLEIC ACID; MILK, HUMAN; PALMITIC ACID;

EID: 0142260899     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BJN2003979     Document Type: Article

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