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Interrelations between Essential Metal Ions and Human Diseases

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    Chapter 1 Metal Ions and Infectious Diseases. An Overview from the Clinic
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    Chapter 2 Sodium and potassium in health and disease.
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    Chapter 3 Magnesium in Health and Disease
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    Chapter 4 Calcium in Health and Disease
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    Chapter 5 Vanadium. Its Role for Humans
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    Chapter 6 Chromium: Is It Essential, Pharmacologically Relevant, or Toxic?
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    Chapter 7 Manganese in Health and Disease
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    Chapter 8 Iron: Effect of Overload and Deficiency
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    Chapter 9 Cobalt: Its Role in Health and Disease
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    Chapter 10 Nickel and Human Health
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    Chapter 11 Copper: Effects of Deficiency and Overload
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    Chapter 12 Zinc and Human Disease
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    Chapter 13 Molybdenum in Human Health and Disease
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    Chapter 14 Silicon: The Health Benefits of a Metalloid
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    Chapter 15 Arsenic. Can This Toxic Metalloid Sustain Life?
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    Chapter 16 Selenium. Role of the Essential Metalloid in Health
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Chapter title
Metal Ions and Infectious Diseases. An Overview from the Clinic
Chapter number 1
Book title
Interrelations between Essential Metal Ions and Human Diseases
Published in
Metal ions in life sciences, November 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-7500-8_1
Pubmed ID
24470087
Book ISBNs
978-9-40-077499-5, 978-9-40-077500-8
Authors

Peggy L. Carver, Carver, Peggy L.

Editors

Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, Roland K.O. Sigel

Abstract

Trace elements (TEs) are required by both humans and bacterial pathogens. Although metal ion homeostasis is tightly controlled in humans, growing evidence suggests that pathogens utilize a variety of means designed to circumvent the sequestration of TEs. Colonizing pathogenic microorganisms employ a variety of strategies to sense, acquire, store, and export metal ions in the vertebrate host which include the biosynthesis and utilization of siderophores, and the expression of high-affinity metal-ion transporters. For iron, selenium, and zinc, significant correlations have been shown between TE levels in plasma, serum, or tissues, and the prevention or treatment of a variety of infectious diseases; fewer such data exist for copper, chromium, or manganese. TEs are often employed as antioxidants, and as supplements in patients with TE-deficient states. The role of TE supplementation in humans as antioxidants remains controversial, but has demonstrated significant benefit in the role of selenium for patients with sepsis, and of zinc for the prevention of several infectious diseases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 20%
Researcher 7 17%
Student > Master 6 15%
Lecturer 4 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 9 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 12%
Chemistry 4 10%
Materials Science 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Other 8 20%
Unknown 11 27%

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#7,451,942
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