Accelerator mass spectrometry can be used to assess vitamin A metabolism quantitatively in boys in a community setting

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1588-1594

  Aklamati, Emmanuel K ^a   Mulenga, Modest ^b   Dueker, Stephen R ^c   Buchholz, Bruce A ^d   Peerson, Janet M ^a   Kafwembe, Emmanuel ^b   Brown, Kenneth H ^a   Haskell, Marjorie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ndola Central Hospital   (Zambia)

^c Vitalea Science   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; RETINOL; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; COMMUNITY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; URINE; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 77956584152     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.110.125500     Document Type: Article

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