Zinc in human health (IOS Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
"This comprehensive book provides a state of the art overview of the role of zinc as an essential trace element in human diet and its effect on human health."--Back cover
Title Page; Foreword; Contents; Introduction and Physiological Background; Introduction -- Why Investigate Zinc?; Discovery of Zinc Deficiency in Humans and Its Impact Fifty Years Later; Discovery of Human Zinc Deficiency; Chronology of Other Observations; Clinical Effects of Zinc Deficiency; Diagnostic Criteria for Zinc Deficiency; Therapeutic Impact of Zinc; Toxicity of Zinc; Nutritional Aspects of Zinc Consumption; Diet Zinc; Conclusion and Perspectives; Human Zinc Biochemistry; Zinc Coordination Chemistry in Proteins; The Zinc Proteome and Metallome