Calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, silicon and zinc content of hair in Parkinson's disease

Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 195-201

  Forte, Giovanni ^a   Alimonti, Alessandro ^a   Violante, Nicola ^a   Di Gregorio, Marco ^a   Senofonte, Oreste ^a   Petrucci, Francesco ^a   Sancesario, Giuseppe ^b   Bocca, Beatrice ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human hair; Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry; Major and trace elements; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

ACID; CALCIUM; COPPER; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IRON; MAGNESIUM; SILICON; ZINC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAIR; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 27744519114     PISSN: 0946672X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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