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Selenium in nutrition / Subcommittee on Selenium, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Selenium.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Selenium in human nutrition.
- Selenium in animal nutrition.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Selenium in Nutrition
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Selenium in Nutrition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chemistry
- PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTAL SELENIUM
- CHEMISTRY OF SELENIUM-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS
- METHODS OF ANALYSIS
- 3 Distribution
- GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION
- COMMERCIAL SOURCES
- SELENIUM IN SOILS
- TOXIC SELENIFEROUS SOILS
- NONTOXIC SELENIFEROUS SOILS
- LOW-SELENIUM SOILS
- FORMS OF SELENIUM IN SOILS AND FACTORS AFFECTING AVAILABILITY TO PLANTS
- SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND SELENIUM IN PLANTS
- SELENIUM IN PLANTS
- EFFECT OF SPECIES
- SELENIUM AS A PLANT MICRONUTRIENT
- TOXICITY TO PLANTS
- CHEMICAL FORMS
- METABOLISM IN PLANTS
- SELENIUM IN ANIMAL FEEDSTUFFS
- REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION IN CROPS
- VARIABILITY IN CONCENTRATION
- BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY
- SELENIUM IN WATER
- DRINKING WATER, SPRINGS, AND WELLS
- RIVERS, LAKES, AND IRRIGATION WATER
- OCEANS
- SELENIUM IN HUMAN FOODS
- DISTRIBUTION BY FOOD GROUPS
- CONCENTRATIONS IN SELENIFEROUS REGIONS
- CONCENTRATIONS IN NONSELENIFEROUS REGIONS
- DAIRY PRODUCTS AND EGGS
- CEREAL PRODUCTS
- MEAT, POULTRY, AND FISH AND OTHER SEAFOODS
- FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
- BABY FOODS
- DIETARY SELENIUM LEVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES
- CONTRIBUTIONS OF WATER
- SELENIUM CYCLING IN NATURE
- 4 Biochemical Functions
- NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE
- GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE ACTIVITY IN ANIMALS
- GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE
- FUNCTION OF GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE
- OTHER FUNCTIONS OF SELENIUM
- NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS
- 5 Metabolism
- DIETARY FORMS
- ABSORPTION
- VASCULAR TRANSPORT
- BODY RETENTION AND TISSUE DISTRIBUTION
- METABOLISM
- INORGANIC SELENIUM
- ORGANIC SELENIUM
- REDUCTION OF SELENIUM
- PREVIOUS SELENIUM INTAKE
- RUMEN MICROORGANISMS
- INFLUENCE OF SULFUR
- INFLUENCE OF ARSENIC
- INFLUENCE OF OTHER ELEMENTS.
- EFFECTS OF VITAMIN E
- MISCELLANEOUS FACTORS
- EXCRETION
- 6 Nutritional Aspects
- DIETARY REQUIREMENTS OF ANIMALS FOR SELENIUM
- MEETING SELENIUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ANIMALS
- DEFICIENCY SIGNS IN ANIMALS
- RATS
- MICE
- HAMSTERS
- GUINEA PIGS
- RABBITS
- NONHUMAN PRIMATES
- FISH
- CHICKENS
- TURKEYS
- DUCKS
- JAPANESE QUAIL
- SWINE
- Tolerance to Iron
- Blood Enzymes
- Gross Pathology and Histopathology
- CATTLE AND SHEEP
- Nutritional Myopathy
- Reproduction and Retained Placenta
- Other Selenium-Related Diseases
- HORSES
- DOGS
- WILD ANIMALS
- SELENIUM IN HUMAN NUTRITION
- 7 Effects of Excess Selenium
- SELENIUM TOXICITY IN LABORATORY ANIMALS
- ACUTE TOXICITY
- CHRONIC TOXICITY
- SELENIUM TOXICITY IN FARM ANIMALS
- SELENIUM OVEREXPOSURE IN HUMANS
- 8 Selenium and Human Health
- HIGH SELENIUM EXPOSURE
- CANCER
- DENTAL CARIES
- REPRODUCTION
- AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
- CONCLUSIONS
- LOW SELENIUM EXPOSURE
- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
- REPRODUCTION AND NEONATAL HEALTH
- INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- CYSTIC FIBROSIS
- SELENIUM SUPPLEMENTS
- 9 Summary
- References.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Bibliography: p. 136-174.
- ISBN:
- 9786610245840
- 9781280245848
- 1280245840
- 9780309567794
- 0309567793
- OCLC:
- 57733174
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