Zinc

Present Knowledge in Nutrition: Tenth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 521-539

  Holt, Roberta R ^a   Uriu Adams, Janet Y ^a   Keen, Carl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular regulation of zinc, intracellular, shuttling zinc within organelles; Food components, as phytate affecting zinc absorption; Marginal zinc deficiency and disease states; Pathophysiological abnormalities, secondary zinc deficiency; Physiological processes, on metabolism and regulatory roles of zinc; Physiological, zinc in catalytic, co catalytic or structural fashion; Trace element zinc, in structural, catalytic, regulatory functions; Zinc for absorption, from diet and endogenous sources of zinc; Zinc metabolism on several fronts, the gaps in zinc metabolism; Zinc deficiency, changes in cell signaling and alterations in immune system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865773476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119946045.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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