Long-term brain and behavioral consequences of early iron deficiency

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Georgieff, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Early iron deficiency; Long term iron alterations; Long term iron genomic changes

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENOMICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MYELINATION; NEWBORN DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD;

AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTNATAL CARE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80155160039     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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