Endocrine Abstracts

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most pervasive of all nutritional deficiencies and is considered very serious during pregnancy, with deleterious consequences for both the mother and her developing fetus. The female albino rats of Wistar strain were fed on iron deficient diets (30, 15, 7 and 2 mgFe/kg of diet) and control diets (50 mgFe/kg of diet). Prior to one month of mating the females were anaesthetised by ether and the tail blood was collected for the evaluation of bl...