Nutrient availability
Subtitle: chemical and biological aspects
By: edited by D. A. T. Southgate, I. T. Johnson and G. R. Fenwick.
Contributors: Southgate, D. A. T.; Johnson, I. T.; Fenwick, G. R.
Series: Special publication / Royal Society of Chemistry -- no. 72.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Nutrition.; Metabolism.
Description: Proceedings of Bioavailability 88: chemical and biological aspects of nutrient availability, held 21 - 24 August 1988 in Norwich, England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 The concept and significance of nutrient bioavailability: nutritional significance of bioavailability, A.E.Bender-- conceptual issues concerning the assessment of nutrient bioavailability, D.A.T.Southgate-- importance of nutrient availability in relation to trends of food production and consumption, H.R.Mueller-- importance of nutrient availability of food production and consumption, G.Mowlah and A.Malek.; title: Part 2 Physical and chemical techniques for the measurement of bioavailability: use of ICP-MS to assess the bioavailability of trace elements in the human diet, B.G.Dalgarno et al-- the use of ICP-MS to estimate absorption of iron during normal human pregnancy, P.G.Whittaker et al-- fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry for the measurement of zinc absorption in human nutrition studies, J.Eagles et al-- determination of absorption of zinc stable isotopes utilizing fast atom bombardment spectrometry, L.V.Miller et al-- isotope dilution techniques for the study of zinc bioavailability from whole diets, M.J.Jackson-- a double label stable isotope method for measuring calcium absorption from foods, S.J.Fairweather-Tait et al.; title: Part 3 Analytical techniques: methods of inorganic analysis and detection application to biological problems, R.Cornelis-- microscopic and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of oat bran components before and after "in vivo" digestion, S.H.Yiu-- determination of molybodenum in plasma by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry, P.C.Morrice et al-- NBS standard reference materials for validating determinations of micronutrients and toxic substances in foods, R.Alvarez-- trends in the daily dietary intake of minor and trace elements by human subjects - an analytical appraisal, C.V.Iyengar-- development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for metallothionein, A.Ghaffar et al-- evaluation of the Vitamin B6 content in foods by HPLC analysis, R.Bitsch and J.Moeller-- analysis of cis-beta-carotenes in food and colorant additives, S.J.Schwartz and G.L.Catignani-- biospecific analysis of vitamins, M.R.A.Morgan et al.; title: Part 4 The importance of speciation: the significance of speciation for predicting mineral bioavailability, W.van Dokkum-- modelling bioavailability as a function of speciation using physiocochemical data and computers, M.I.Barnett et al-- a stable isotope study of the degree of exchange between extrinsic endogenous zinc during "in vitro" enzyme digestion of food, H.M.Crews et al.