Biological trace element research

Trace Element Research on Health and Diseases

Announcement: Vth Conference of the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans (ISTERH) “ New Aspects of Trace Element Research”

Medical Applications of X-ray Fluorescence for Trace Element Research

Techniques for estimation of element levels directly in humans (non-invasive in vivo) or in samples (in vitro) from humans are reviewed. Toxic, nonessential, trace elements may cause temporary or permanent damage to various organs and tissues in humans. There is thus a need to control the concentrations. Knowledge of the relations between toxic effects and element concentration may be extracted...

Trace Element Chemistry Studies

This work was undertaken to measure background silver in Illinois precipitation in the absence of any known seeding operations in or near Illinois. The overall rainfall-weighted mean concentration at several stations was 73 ng/liter. This is somewhat higher than has been found in unseeded precipitation in the western United States, but probably not high enough to preclude identification of silv...

Ocean trace element cycles.

The oceans are salty. Each litre contains about 35 g of dissolved salts, resulting from the balance between inputs and outputs to the ocean over geological time. The constituents of common salt—Na and Cl—make up more than 90% of this dissolved mass, and together with Mg, S and Ca, represent 99%. Add only three more elements— K, Br and C—and you have more than 999 parts in a 1000 of the dissolve...