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Selenium
About: Selenium is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 21192 publications have been published within this topic receiving 429715 citations. The topic is also known as: Se & selen.
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TL;DR: The interaction between inorganic mercury and sodium selenite, the most extensively studied, as well as the interaction between methylmercury (MeHg) and selenium, the interaction perhaps most significant for non-occupational human populations, will be discussed.
Abstract: The interaction between mercury and selenium may involve a variety of toxicologically and biochemically distinct processes. In this paper, the interaction between inorganic mercury and sodium selenite, the interaction most extensively studied, as well as the interaction between methylmercury (MeHg) and selenium, the interaction perhaps most significant for non-occupational human populations, will be discussed. It has been shown that the former interaction can be understood as a modification of the kinetic behavior of inorganic mercury by selenite, but this interaction may occur only under very limited conditions. On the other hand, the mechanism of the latter interaction is largely unknown, and kinetic modification appears to play only a minor role. An interaction between MeHg and selenoproteins or a possible interaction between the inorganic mercury, resulting from the demethylation of MeHg, and the selenium may be important. Compared to the experimental findings, little evidence of the toxicological modification of MeHg by selenium was obtained in epidemiological studies.
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TL;DR: Evidence is provided that dietary selenium deficiency shortens, while supplementation of the diet withSelenium normalizes the Drosophila life span by a process that may involve the newly identified selenoproteins.
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TL;DR: Triphenyl selenonium chloride, a new type of chemopreventive selenium compound, has been synthesized in radioactive form for use as a tracer to facilitate studies of its mode of action.
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TL;DR: The effects of a variety of parameters on the reduction of soluble selenium by a Bacillus sp.
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