Assessment of iron bioavailability from twenty elite late-maturing tropical maize varieties using an in vitro digestion/Caco-2 cell model

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1202-1206

  Oikeh, Sylvester O ^a,b,c   Menkir, Abebe ^b   Maziya Dixon, Bussie ^b   Welch, Ross M ^a   Glahn, Raymond P ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Carolyn House ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Caco 2; Iron; Late tropical maize; West and Central Africa; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 3442898333     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.1805     Document Type: Article

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