Diet (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acid content and parity interact to alter maternal rat brain phospholipid fatty acid composition

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2236-2242

  Levant, Beth ^a,b   Ozias, Marlies K ^a   Carlson, Susan E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PRIMIPARA; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RAT; REPRODUCTION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33746619224     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.8.2236     Document Type: Article

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