Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in maternal and infant nutrition

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 135-144

  Muskiet, Frits A J ^a   van Goor, Saskia A ^a   Kuipers, Remko S ^a   Velzing Aarts, Francien V ^a   Smit, Ella N ^a   Bouwstra, Hylco ^a   Janneke Dijck Brouwer, D A ^a   Rudy Boersma, E ^b   Hadders Algra, Mijna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; FISH OIL; LINOLEIC ACID; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; OLEIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; FAT INTAKE; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; LACTATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

ANIMALIA; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 33747872835     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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