Interest in zinc nutrition was aroused 25 years ago when Zn deficiency, related primarily to
diet, was shown to be the cause of dwarfism and hypogonadism among adolescents from …

Fig. 1. Plasma zinc v. time of day over a 24 h period for ten healthy women of child-bearing
age who were neither pregnant nor lactating (KM Hambidge, MA Jacobs, J. Pritts and C …

We have previously reported a trapping of zinc in the placenta directly related to circulating
cadmium that comes from cigarette smoke. The purpose of this study was to examine in …

There is no doubt that mineral-mineral* interactions in living organisms have been important
in physiology since the dawn of creation, as interactions among elements are noted in …

Zinc was discovered to be essential for the growth of living organisms in 1869. The
suspicion that zinc deficiency occurs in man is relatively recent. In 1963, studies reported by …

First, the suggested dietary intake of Zn could only be achieved on natural diets at
impossibly high protein intakes. Second, it is noted (Fig. 1) that the plasma Zn level …

This book contains the proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Basic Symposium sponsored by
the Institute of Food Technologists and the International Union of Food Science and …

The importance of zinc in human health and disease has been reviewed by reporting data
from the recent literature. The role of zinc in human nutrition, general health, skin diseases …

This study was undertaken to investigate the effect of pregnancy and glucose loading on
zinc metabolism. In a completely random design with repeated measures, 18 non-pregnant …

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SAMT VOL 73 6 FEB 1988 painless vulval nodules 8 - 26 months after the primary tumour had …