A New Dietary Supplement Based on Bovine Blood: Recovering Brazilian Children from Malnutrition

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-86

  Teodósio, Naíde Regueira ^a   Perez, Emilia Pessoa ^a   Alves, Antônio José ^a,b   Dimenstein, Walter ^b   Guedes, Rubem Carlos Araújo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Lab Farmaceutico do Estado Pernamb   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bovine blood; Development; Essential amino acids; Malnutrition; Prothemol + plasmel

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

EID: 0347997549     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1028415X.2000.11747304     Document Type: Article

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