Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 133-139 , February 2008

Retinol, carotenoids, and tocopherols in the milk of lactating adolescents and relationships with plasma concentrations

  • Vilma B.de Azeredo, D.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Nutrição e Dietética, Faculdade de Nutrição, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • ,
  • Nadia M.F. Trugo, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratório de Bioquímica Nutricional e de Alimentos, Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-21-2562-7352; fax: +55-21-2562-7266.

Received 14 February 2007 ,Accepted 21 October 2007.

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 This study was funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and Fundação Carlos Chagas de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Brazil. N.M.F.T. received a research fellowship from the CNPq.

PII: S0899-9007(07)00317-6

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.10.011

Nutrition
Volume 24, Issue 2 , Pages 133-139 , February 2008

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