Selenium supplementation: does soil supplementation help and why?
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Selenium supplementation and selenoenzyme activity.
Brown et al. [1] have recently described the effects of selenium supplementation on selenoenzyme activity. They claim that inverse relationships between baseline enzyme activities and percentage change in activity indicate that pre-treatment activity may be sub-optimal. However, there are two problems with this supposition, the first statistical and the second conceptual. The authors noted the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1079/pns2003254