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Essential trace metals in man: Selenium

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Selenium did not accumulate in human hair with age, but increased in hair of rats fed selenate, and under some conditions, selenium is carcinogenic in rats.
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This article is published in Journal of Chronic Diseases.The article was published on 1970-10-01. It has received 226 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Selenium.

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Cancer mortality correlation studies-III: Statistical associations with dietary selenium intakes

TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that selenium has cancer-protecting effects in man and a change of diet aimed at increasing the dietary selenum supply is suggested as a possible means of lowering the human cancer risk.
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Selenium speciation from food source to metabolites: a critical review.

TL;DR: This review gives a brief, critical overview of the main analytical findings reported in these papers on Se and its role in health issues, and includes a detailed image of the current state-of-the-art of Se speciation analysis in food sources and in human tissues and body fluids.
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Selenium in biology and medicine

TL;DR: This book contains one-half of the oral or poster presentations which were selected before the meeting was held on the basis of a one page abstract and is the reader who will have to decide whether this time consuming policy of quality assessment was warranted or not.
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Selenium in the environment

TL;DR: Selenium prevents several type of chemically induced cancer in animals, and, where more selenium occurs in the environment, human cancer death rates are lower and human heart disease mortality is lower.
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Trace Elements in Human and Animal Nutrition

TL;DR: This book discusses the history of zinc, its application in agriculture, and its applications in the management of soil-Plant-Animal relations.
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Principles of geochemistry

Brian Mason
TL;DR: I: Geochemistry of Crystal Phases 1: Elemental Properties and Crystal Chemistry 2: Concepts of Chemical Thermodynamics 3: Thermochemistry of Crystalline Solids 4: Some Concepts of Defect Chemistry 5: Silicates II: Geochemical of Silicate Melts 6: SilicateMelts 7: Introduction to Petrogenetic Systems III: Geochemics of Fluids 8: Geography of Aqueous Phases 9: Chemical Chemistry of Gaseous Phasing IV: Methods 10: Trace Element Geochemistry 11: Isotope Geochemistry Appendix 1: