1. Age-dependent decreases of phosphorus and magnesium in human achilles’ tendons

   • Yoshiyuki Tohno
   • Yasuo Takano
   • Kazunari Yuri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 9

2. Priming with magnesium-deficient media inhibits preadipocyte differentiation via potential upregulation of tumor necrosis factor-α

   • Yourka D. Tchoukalova
   • Arthur Grider
   • Gary J. Hausman

   OriginalPaper Pages: 11 - 21

3. Radiation exposure does not alter metallothionein III isoform expression in mouse brain

   • Shin-Ichi Ono
   • Lu Cai
   • M. George Cherian

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 30

4. Zinc distribution in the small-intestinal digesta of pigs fed skim milk powder or defatted soybean flour

   • Kin-ya Ashida
   • Tohru Matsui
   • Takashi Nakajima

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 40

5. Rats retain chromium in tissues following chronic ingestion of drinking water containing hexavalent chromium

   • Jessica E. Sutherland
   • Anatoly Zhitkovich
   • Max Costa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 53

6. Selenium regulates expression in rat liver of genes for proteins involved in iron metabolism

   • Merrill J. Christensen
   • Cari A. Olsen
   • Blake C. Ballif

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 70

7. Analysis of the phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase mRNA in the rat spermatozoon and effect of selenium deficiency on the mRNA

   • Kaoruko Mizuno
   • Shuji Hirata
   • Momoko Chiba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 79

8. Time course of arsenite-induced copper accumulation in rat kidney

   • O. Ademuyiwa
   • B. Elsenhans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 92