Maternal selenium status in Slovenia and its impact on the selenium concentration of umbilical cord serum and colostrum

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 522-524

  Micetic Turk D ^a   Rossipal, E ^b   Krachler, M ^a   Li, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Colostrum; Mothers; Selenium; Serum; Umbilical cord serum

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD DONOR; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PUERPERIUM; SLOVENIA; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADULT; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SELENIUM; SLOVENIA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 0343134051     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601050     Document Type: Article

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