Nutrition
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 248-253 , March 2007

Zinc and copper metabolism in pregnancy and lactation of adolescent women

  • Patricia Afonso Maia, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Renata C.B. Figueiredo, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Alexandra Silva Anastácio, D.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Carmem Lucia Porto da Silveira, D.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Química, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Carmen Marino Donangelo, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-21-2562-8213; fax: +55-21-2562-7266.

Received 28 June 2006 ,Accepted 4 January 2007.

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 This study was supported in part by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (FAPERJ); and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior, Brazil (CAPES). C.M.D. is a Research Fellow of CNPq.

PII: S0899-9007(07)00010-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.01.003

Nutrition
Volume 23, Issue 3 , Pages 248-253 , March 2007

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