Antioxidant and radical scavenging activity of human colostrum, transitional and mature milk

Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-154

  Zarban, Asghar ^a   Taheri, Fatemeh ^b   Chahkandi, Taiebeh ^b   Sharifzadeh, Gholamreza ^a   Khorashadizadeh, Mohsen ^a  

^a BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b BIRJAND UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colostrum; Mature milk; Radical scavenging activity; Total antioxidant activity; Transitional milk

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ANTIOXIDANT; SCAVENGER;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATION; MATERNAL PLASMA; MATURE MILK; MILK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TRANSITIONAL MILK;

EID: 70350334559     PISSN: 09120009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3164/jcbn.08-233     Document Type: Article

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