First trimester curtailment of iron absorption: Innate suppression of a teratogen?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 246-247

  Weinberg, E D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS GLUCONATE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FETUS DISEASE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON THERAPY; MUTAGEN TESTING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENESIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRON, DIETARY; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; TERATOGENS;

MURINAE;

EID: 72449173331     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.029     Document Type: Article

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