Copper-deficient Rats have Altered Plasma Dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and Spleen Catecholamine Levels

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-111

  Teman, Paul T ^a   Prohaska, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Copper deficient; Dihydroxyphenylacetic acid; Dihydroxyphenylglycol; Rats

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346971174     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.1999.11747268     Document Type: Article

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