Article
Iron Supplementation in Suckling Piglets: an Ostensibly Easy Therapy of Neonatal Iron Deficiency Anemia
2018-10-09
Abstract excerpt
In pigs, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most prevalent deficiency disorder during the early postnatal period frequently developing into a critical illness. Meanwhile, in humans, only low-birth-weight infants, including premature infants are especially susceptible to developing IDA. In both human and pig neonates, the initial cause of IDA is low birth iron stores. In piglets this shortage of stored iron result...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5a02921c-dd11-512d-9e6b-7402fdf37f9c
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201810.0189.v1
