Selenium metabolites in urine: A critical overview of past work and current status

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2240-2253

  Francesconi, Kevin A ^a   Pannier, Florence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; METABOLITE; METAL METABOLISM; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 9344248072     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.039875     Document Type: Review

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