Gastrointestinal maturation and implications for infant feeding

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 767-775

  Neu, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intestinal development; Intestinal immunity; Intestinal microbes; Neonate; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; LIPID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PROTEIN; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BREAST MILK; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT NUTRITION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE MOTILITY; LIPID ABSORPTION; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; PANETH CELL; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREMATURITY; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH PH; SUCKING; SWALLOWING; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE;

EID: 35548978461     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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