Spirulina can increase total-body vitamin a stores of chinese school-age children as determined by a paired isotope dilution technique

Journal of Nutritional Science

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-7

  Li, Lei ^a,b   Zhao, Xianfeng ^a   Wang, Jie ^a   Muzhingi, Tawanda ^c   Suter, Paolo M ^d   Tang, Guangwen ^c   Yin, Shi an ^a  

^a National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Paired isotope dilution techniques; School age children; Spirulina; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920372178     PISSN: 20486790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jns.2012.21     Document Type: Article

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