Gestational iron deficiency differentially alters the structure and function of white and gray matter brain regions of developing rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1058-1066

  Greminger, Allison R ^a,b   Lee, Dawn L ^b   Shrager, Peter ^a   Mayer Pröschel, Margot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECOGNITION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84904668549     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.187732     Document Type: Article

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