Viral infections have afflicted human health and despite great advancements in scientific
knowledge and technologies, continue to affect our society today. The current coronavirus …

Essential to human health, selenium (Se) has enzymatic functions of fundamental
importance to human biology due to its effects on DNA damage repair, its antioxidant …

Selenium, is an essential trace nutrient in the human diet. The health promoting properties of
selenium and its compounds are due to its unique mechanism of incorporation into …

Selenium is a main group element and an essential trace element in human health. It was
discovered in selenocysteine (SeC) by Stadtman in 1974. SeC is an encoded natural amino …

The major route of selenium exposure in humans is through diet. High dietary intakes of
selenium have caused toxicity in humans after consuming selenium-rich food grown in …

Selenium is a fascinating element that has a long history, most of which documents it as a
deleterious element to health. In more recent years, selenium has been found to be an …

The essential trace element selenium, which is a crucial cofactor in the most important
endogenous antioxidative systems of the human body, is attracting more and more the …

Selenium is a metalloid element with the atomic number 34. It is one of the elements that
determine the normal functioning of an organism; it has antioxidant properties and protects …

Despite its very low level in humans, selenium plays an important and unique role among
the (semi) metal trace essential elements because it is the only one for which incorporation …

The trace element selenium is of high importance for many of the body's regulatory and
metabolic functions. Balanced selenium levels are essential, whereas dysregulation can …