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Effects of Nutritional Rehabilitation on the Content and Lipid Composition of Brain Gray and White Matter of Neonatally Undernourished Rats
Author(s) -
Reddy T. Sanjeeva,
Rajalakshmi R.,
Ramakrishnan C. V.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of neurochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.75
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1471-4159
pISSN - 0022-3042
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1982.tb12569.x
Subject(s) - white matter , gray (unit) , malnutrition , dry matter , lipid accumulation , endocrinology , medicine , chemistry , biology , zoology , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology
Neonatal undernutrition affects the content and lipid concentrations of gray and white matter. Nutritional rehabilitation reverses the deficit observed in gray matter. In the case of white matter the lipid concentration but not the content comes back to normal.