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Rat intestinal copper retention after fulvic-mixture exposure
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What acts on it
Fulvic exposure increased intestinal mucosal copper retention at six hours without markedly changing lumen-to-mucosa uptake.
Experimental context and source evidence
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- Primary abstract
- experimental_model
- Suckling-rat tracer study; water and formula matrices.
- limitations
- The abstract switches to Cd when describing circulatory absorption. That sentence is not silently treated as a verified copper result; no infant recommendation follows.
- nutrient_topic
- Fulvic acid collection; species, compartment, exposure, co-substrates and manipulation remain explicit. · Fulvic acid (heterogeneous humic fraction)
- plain_language
- Copper stayed in the intestinal lining longer.
- primary_references
- Intestinal absorption of copper from drinking water containing fulvic acids and an infant formula mixture studied in a suckling rat model. · 1999 · https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10406087/ · DOI 10.1023/a:1009233802104
Fulvic acid: mixture identity, mineral chemistry, signaling and cross-nutrient mechanisms (2026-09-19) · lines 84–90
AI-assisted research curation; primary references, access levels and experimental limitations individually identified. Not publisher full text. · supports · Suckling-rat tracer study; water and formula matrices. · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
## fulvic-acid-copper-retention Copper stayed in the intestinal lining longer. Fulvic exposure increased intestinal mucosal copper retention at six hours without markedly changing lumen-to-mucosa uptake. Model: Suckling-rat tracer study; water and formula matrices. Limitations: The abstract switches to Cd when describing circulatory absorption. That sentence is not silently treated as a verified copper result; no infant recommendation follows. Evidence access: Primary abstract Intestinal absorption of copper from drinking water containing fulvic acids and an infant formula mixture studied in a suckling rat model. · 1999 · https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10406087/ · DOI 10.1023/a:1009233802104
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