Selenium deficiency in soils and crops and its impact on animal and human health

Current Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 268-280

  Gupta, Umesh C ^a   Gupta, Subhas C ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Se deficiency control measures; Se deficiency in humans; Se responsive diseases in livestock; Se sources; Soil properties

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; COUMARIN; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; SELENIUM; SELENOMETHIONINE; SELENOPROTEIN; SODIUM SELENITE;

AGING; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLON CANCER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROP; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KASHIN BECK DISEASE; KESHAN DISEASE; LIVER CANCER; LIVESTOCK; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHEDEMA; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT LOADING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PH; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; RETAINED PLACENTA; SELENIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; GLYCINE MAX; MORUS (ANGIOSPERM); OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 79952765820     PISSN: 15734013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340110793663725     Document Type: Article

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