Essential Fatty Acids Status in Infants and Children with Chronic Liver Disease

Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  Abdel Ghaffar, T Y ^a   Amin, M ^a   Abdel Rasheed, M ^a   Fouad, Hanan Hassan ^b  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Children; Chronic liver diseases; Essential fatty acids; Hyperbilirubinemia; Infants; Oxidant stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; RETINOL; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 0242712259     PISSN: 09120009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.33.1     Document Type: Article

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