Serum selenium levels as indicators of body status in cancer patients and their relationship with other nutritional and biochemical markers

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 212, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 195-202

  Navarro Alarcon M ^a   Lopez G De La Serrana H ^a   Perez Valero V ^b   Lopez Martinez C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Motril   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biochemical markers; Cancer; Nutritional markers; Selenium

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; SELENIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BUILD; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SELENIUM; TRIGLYCERIDES; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UREA; URIC ACID;

EID: 0344505795     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(97)00343-4     Document Type: Article

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