Zinc: An essential trace element with potential benefits to soldiers

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1048-1052

  McClung, James P ^a   Scrimgeour, Angus G ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; GLUCONATE ZINC; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; ZINC ACETATE; ZINC SULFATE;

CLINICAL TRIAL; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA REPLICATION; HUMAN; LEISHMANIASIS; MALARIA; MENTAL FUNCTION; METABOLISM; MILITARY MEDICINE; PROTECTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; SOLDIER; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

EID: 29144479352     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.12.1048     Document Type: Review

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