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Hair as a biopsy material. V. Hair metal as an index of hepatic metal in rats: copper and zinc.
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Hair copper in 500 day-old adult rats was found to correlate directly with copper in whole liver and the subcellular liver nuclear, and cytosol fractions, and an inverse correlation was found between copper in liver microsomes and plasma cholesterol.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 1978-03-01. It has received 50 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Copper.read more
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Perspectives in nutrition
Gordon M. Wardlaw,Paul M. Insel +1 more
TL;DR: It is hoped that Perspectives in Nutrition will review the literature selectively, interpret it moderately and present a spectrum of ideas that will serve as a continual stimulation to nutritional research applied to medical problems.
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Hair analyses: worthless for vitamins, limited for minerals
TL;DR: Hair analyses are of some value in the comparison of different populations and in public health community surveys of environmental exposure to heavy metals, but their established usefulness is much more restricted and the limitations are especially notable for evaluation of mineral nutritional status.
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Trace elements in the fetus and young infant. I. Zinc.
TL;DR: Perhaps the most remarkable fact about trace elements is not their scarcity, but their abundance in the tissues of the human body, and yet the newborn baby contains about 3.6 × 1018chromium atoms.
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Interactions of copper and zinc in cardiovascular disease
TL;DR: The zinc/copper hypothesis states that “a metabolic imbalance in regard to zinc and copper is a major factor” in the etiology of ischemic heart disease.