Choline status in newborns, infants, children, breast-feeding women, breast-fed infants and human breast milk

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 489-499

  Ilcol, Yeşim Ozarda ^a   Ozbek, Resul ^a   Hamurtekin, Emre ^a   Ulus, Ismail H ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Breast feeding women; Free choline; Glycerophosphocholine; Infants; Newborns; Phosphocholine; Phospholipid bound choline

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; COLOSTRUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LACTATION; MILK LEVEL; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANT WOMAN;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLINE; FEMALE; GLYCERYLPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SPHINGOMYELINS;

EID: 22844433198     PISSN: 09552863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2005.01.011     Document Type: Article

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