Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6834-6839

  Humphrey, Louise T ^a   Dean, M Christopher ^b   Jeffries, Teresa E ^a   Penn, Malcolm ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calcium; Infant diet; Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Strontium; Weaning

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HEAVY METAL; STRONTIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DIET; ENAMEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIFE HISTORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; WEANING; AMELOBLAST; CHILD; CYTOLOGY; DECIDUOUS TOOTH; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

AMELOBLASTS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BREAST FEEDING; CALCIUM; CHILD; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; STRONTIUM; TOOTH; TOOTH, DECIDUOUS;

EID: 44349143533     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711513105     Document Type: Article

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