Rat milk decreases necrotizing enterocolitis in a rat model

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 554, Issue , 2004, Pages 471-473

  Dvorak, Bohuslav ^a,b   Halpern, Melissa D ^a   Holubec, Hana ^b   Dvorakova, Katerina ^b   Dominguez, Jessica A ^a   Williams, Catherine S ^a   Meza, Yolanda G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; INFANT FEEDING; MILK; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RAT; RISK REDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4644228928     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4242-8_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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