Zinc-deficient sprouting blight potatoes and their possible relation with neural tube defects

Cell Biochemistry and Function

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-72

  Ulman, Cevval ^a   Taneli, Fatma ^a   Oksel, Figen ^b   Hakerlerler, Huseyin ^c  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Social Security Hospital   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Neural tube defect; Sprouting potatoes; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ARTICLE; ASH; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPROUTING; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZINC;

ANIMALIA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 11244269623     PISSN: 02636484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbf.1172     Document Type: Article

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