Effect of a fermented formula on thymus size and stool pH in healthy term infants

Pediatric Research

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 98-100

  Indrio, Flavia ^a   Ladisa, Grazia ^a   Mautone, Angela ^a   Montagna, Osvaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; THYMUS;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST FEEDING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FECES; FEMALE; FERMENTATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 34250843188     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/pdr.0b013e31806772d3     Document Type: Article

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