Exchangeable zinc pool size at birth is smaller in small-for-gestational- age than in appropriate-for-gestational-age preterm infants

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1340-1343

  Krebs, Nancy F ^a,c   Westcott, Jamie L ^a   Rodden, Donna J ^b   Ferguson, Katharine W ^a   Miller, Leland V ^a   Hambidge, K Michael ^a  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchangeable zinc pool size; Premature infants; Small for gestational age infants; Zinc; Zinc stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE; ZINC; ZINC 70;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREMATURITY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; URINALYSIS; ZINC DEFICIENCY; ZINC METABOLISM; ZINC URINE LEVEL;

EID: 33845480292     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/84.6.1340     Document Type: Article

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