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Nutrient stores in human foetal livers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2010

Leela Iyengar  and
Sharad V. Apte
Leela Iyengar
Affiliation:
National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research Jamai-Osmania, Hyderabad-7 (A.P.), India
Sharad V. Apte
Affiliation:
National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research Jamai-Osmania, Hyderabad-7 (A.P.), India
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1. Liver composition and hepatic nutrient stores in foetuses born to mothers belonging to a low socio-economic group of the population were determined.

2. The contribution by the liver to body-weight and the concentration of water and nitrogen in liver at different gestational ages were relatively constant.

3. Total iron and copper contents of the liver were in the normal reported range but the ferritin content was considerably lower in the present investigation.

4. Hepatic stores of vitamin A, vitamin B12 and folate were lower than the values that have been reported elsewhere.

5. It is suggested that inadequate stores of iron, vitamin A, vitamin B12 and folate in these infants may predispose them to the early development of some deficiency diesease.

Type
Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 313 - 317
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1972

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