Trace elements and health

Author: Yang Kedi
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book can be used as a textbook for students in various disciplines of higher medical colleges and other life science and environmental science-related majors, as well as a reference for scientific workers engaged in trace element and health research, drug and health product development, and related fields. This textbook is part of the Ministry of Education's 21st Century Curriculum Program. It was compiled based on the author's extensive experience in teaching and researching trace elements and health, incorporating a wealth of domestic and international research findings. The book is divided into four parts, totaling 28 chapters.
Part I is the General Introduction, providing an overview of the basic knowledge and theories of trace elements and health, including the preface, the distribution of trace elements in the environment, their biological effects, interactions between trace elements, and their relationship with health and diseases. Part II is the core of the book, introducing 14 currently recognized essential trace elements (iron, copper, zinc, manganese, chromium, cobalt, vanadium, tin, nickel, molybdenum, iodine, fluorine, selenium, silicon), with each element covered in a separate chapter. Part III consists of 7 chapters, covering 7 non-essential trace elements that are widely distributed in pollution and pose significant hazards: boron, arsenic, aluminum, lead, cadmium, mercury, and thallium. Part IV includes 2 chapters, briefly introducing detection methods for trace elements and reference values of trace elements in different biological materials.