Copper Deficiency, Lead, and Paraoxonase

Copper deficiency.

Relations between Iron Deficiency Anemia and Serum Levels of Copper, Zinc, Cadmium and Lead

Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is a common nutritional deficiency syndrome. Lead and cadmium are major hazard elements to humans in industrialized countries. Zinc and copper are essential and play important roles in different physiologic and pathologic conditions. The aim of our study was to determine levels of serum Cu, Zn, Fe, Cd and Pb in IDA patients, and to investigate the relationship betwe...

Copper deficiency myelopathy.

BACKGROUND In humans, Menkes disease is the well-recognized neurological disorder due to inherited copper deficiency. Myelopathy due to acquired copper deficiency is not a well-recognized entity in humans, although myelopathy due to copper deficiency is well documented in some animal species. PATIENTS We describe 3 patients who developed a progressive spastic-ataxic gait with proprioceptive d...

Familial benign copper deficiency.

Hypocupraemia with normal caeruloplasmin levels was found in a 21-month-old boy admitted to hospital because of repeated seizures and failure to thrive. He had blonde curly hair, spurring of the femora and tibiae, and mild anaemia, but his mental development, electroencephalogram, and structure of the hair on microscopical examination were normal. There was a general improvement in his conditio...

Copper deficiency and copper toxicity in the rat.

OWEN, CHARLES A., JR., and JANE B. HAZELRIG. Copper deJi&nc~ and copper toxicify in the rat. Am. J, Physiol. 215(Z) : 334-338. I968.-Changes in metabolism of an intravexmusly injected tracer dose of 64Cu were measured in Sprague-Dawley rats subjected to copper loading, by addition of cupric acetate to the drinking water, or made copper deficient, by use of a milk-powder diet and copper-free wat...