Zinc absorption by young adults from supplemental zinc citrate is comparable with that from zinc gluconate and higher than from zinc oxide

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 132-136

  Wegmüller, Rita ^a,c   Tay, Fabian ^b   Zeder, Christophe ^a   Brnić, Marica ^a   Hurrell, Richard F ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCONATE ZINC; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ZINC; ZINC 67; ZINC 70; ZINC CITRATE; ZINC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SOLUBILITY; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CITRATES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUCONATES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT; ZINC; ZINC ISOTOPES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84892648455     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.181487     Document Type: Article

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