Zinc and glutamine improve brain development in suckling mice subjected to early postnatal malnutrition

Nutrition

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 662-670

  Ladd, Fernando V L ^a   Ladd, Aliny A B L ^a   Ribeiro, Antônio Augusto C M ^a   Costa, Samuel B C ^b   Coutinho, Bruna P ^b   Feitosa, George André S ^b   de Andrade, Geanne M ^b   Maurício de Castro Costa, Carlos ^b   Magalhães, Carlos Emanuel C ^b   Castro, Ibraim C ^b   Oliveira, Bruna B ^b   Guerrant, Richard L ^b,c   Lima, Aldo Ângelo M ^b   Oriá, Reinaldo B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Malnutrition; Ontogeny behavior; Stereology; Suckling mice

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; ZINC; ZINC ACETATE; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALNUTRITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCKLING; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; LACTATION; MALNUTRITION; MICE; MICRONUTRIENTS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; SWIMMING; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; WEIGHT GAIN; ZINC; ZINC ACETATE;

MUS;

EID: 77952741356     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.11.020     Document Type: Article

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