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Neurobiology of Zinc

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Zinc in Human Biology

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Nowadays, the importance of zinc in neurobiology is widely acknowledged and has been reviewed recently by several authors (Dreosti 1983; Frederickson et al. 1984b; Sandstead 1985). However, little more than a decade ago such recognition was very limited, and interest in zinc and the brain centred mainly on the pioneering studies by Hurley and Swenerton (1966) concerning abnormal development of the central nervous system in zinc-deficient rat embryos, and on the early behavioural investigations by Apgar (1968) and Caldwell et al. (1970) with zinc-deprived experimental animals.

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Dreosti, I.E. (1989). Neurobiology of Zinc. In: Mills, C.F. (eds) Zinc in Human Biology. ILSI Human Nutrition Reviews. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3879-2_15

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