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Essential and toxic trace elements and vitamins in human health /

"Essential and Toxic Trace Elements and Vitamins in Human Health is a comprehensive guide to the wide variety of micronutrients that affect human health, including fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins that support diverse biochemical functions, trace elements with established and suggested li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Prasad, Ananda S. (Ananda Shiva) (Editor ), Brewer, George J., 1930- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Essential. Clinical and immunological effects and biomarkers of zinc deficiency
  • Zinc and the immune system: Insights into the role of zinc in autoimmune diseases
  • Zinc transporters in physiology and pathophysiology
  • Copper
  • Iron
  • Iodine
  • Selenium
  • Unifying mechanisms of trivalent chromium in health and disease
  • Manganese
  • Fluorine in human metabolism, health and disease
  • Part II: Toxic trace elements. Arsenic skin carcinogenesis: A prototypic model of chemical carcinogenesis featured with abnormal differentiation and aberrant immune responses
  • Emerging importance of manganese and arsenic as modifiers of cadmium accumulation
  • Lead
  • Methylmercury: Human exposure, animal behavior, and insight on molecular mechanism
  • Part III: Vitamins. Vitamin A
  • The B-vitamins
  • Vitamin C
  • Vitamin D in human health
  • Vitamin E: Tocopherols and tocotrienol and their role in health and disease
  • Recommended daily dietary allowances.