Fast determination of fatty acids in whole blood collected from fingertips: Application to the assessment of fatty acid patterns (and various indexes) in population studies

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2009, Pages 35-45

  Galli, Claudio ^a   Risé, Patrizia ^a   Ghezzi, Silvia ^a   Marangoni, Franca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD; CAMBODIA; CHINA; FEMALE; FINGER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; METHYLATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAMBODIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; METHYLATION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; TIBET;

DUDLEYA EDULIS;

EID: 77956036855     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000235709     Document Type: Article

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