Stable Isotope Ratios as Biomarkers of Diet for Health Research

Annual Review of Nutrition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 565-594

  O'Brien, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; Nitrogen 15; Nutritional epidemiology; Sulfur 34

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR; ISOTOPE; SUGAR INTAKE;

ARCHEOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIET; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; EUROPE; FISH; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; MEAT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUGAR INTAKE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; DIETARY SUCROSE; EUROPE; FISHES; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEAT; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SULFUR ISOTOPES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84937571055     PISSN: 01999885     EISSN: 15454312     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-nutr-071714-034511     Document Type: Review

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