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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"iron nutrition"”.
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A study of iron nutrition and immunity in infancy
Motivation and study design: Iron deficiency is a common condition in infancy, particularly in lower socio-economic groups. In Cape Town it remains a problem in spite of public health measures taken against it: a recent survey found a prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia of 34% in healthy 1-year …
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IRON NUTRITION DURING EARLY CHILDHOOD. Factors influencing iron status and iron intake.
… of this thesis was to describe the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) and factors influencing iron status and iron intake among otherwise healthy children. The specific aim in paper I+II was to describe the prevalence of ID among 2 ½-year-old children in relation to intake of cow's milk and …
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Production and characterization of transgenic maize plants designed to improve iron nutrition
… solutions to the devastating effects of iron deficiency anemia has led to the generation of crops with improved nutritional quality traits. Iron is one of the required but limited mineral elements in most diets consumed by people in developing countries who have limited access to …
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Interaction of iron and folate during reproduction
… rat pups nursed by either severely or moderately iron-deficient dams were folate depleted at day 17 of lactation even when maternal animals were fed twice the National Research Council's recommended amount of folate (J. Nutr. 117: 1715; J. Nutr. 113: 2471). Folate status of iron-deficient (Fe$-$) …
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Phosphate starvation alters calcium signalling in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana
… (ROS) levels induced by P starvation. Excluding iron, as well as P, rescued the altered [Ca2+]cyt response, and restored ROS levels to those seen under nutrient-replete conditions. P availability was not signalled through [Ca2+]cyt. In another part of this PhD project, a library of 77 putative …