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Zinc and Iron in Free Radical Pathology and Cellular Control

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Zinc in Human Biology

Part of the book series: ILSI Human Nutrition Reviews ((ILSI HUMAN))

Abstract

In parts of New Zealand, the government is said to have saved millions of dollars by dosing sheep and cattle with zinc between January and April. In London, thanks to daily zinc supplements, an acrodermatitis enteropathica patient, who 30 years ago would not have been expected to live beyond infancy, recently gave birth to a healthy child (Brenton et al. 1981). In Switzerland, animals have survived normally lethal doses of radiation by previously being given zinc aspartate.

Die Gegenwart eines Zinksalzes verhindert die Farbenreaktion mit Eisen-chlorid, aber nicht mit Kupfer- oder Kobaltsalz

(Loven 1884)

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Willson, R.L. (1989). Zinc and Iron in Free Radical Pathology and Cellular Control. 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_10

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