Plant-based diets usually contain more nutrient-dense foods such as vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and fruits than a standard Western diet. Yet, the amount especially bioavailability of several nutrients, trace elements, is supposed to be lower in comparison with consumption animal-derived foods. Based on this, Nutritional Evaluation (NuEva) study (172 participants) was initiated compare el...

Disturbance of mineral status in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) is one of many complications of this disease. Trace elements analysis in hair is sometime used by clinicians for a diagnosis of mineral status. In the present study concentration of magnesium and other trace elements was determined in serum, erythrocytes, and hair of patients with CRF undergoing hemodialysis (n = 31) and...

Decreased thyroid hormone synthesis and low levels of circulating thyroid hormones result in biochemical and clinical hypothyroidism. Deficiency of thyroid hormones causes many metabolic processes to slow down. The maintenance of optimal health requires an adequate supply of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids, and macronutrients, micronutrients, and trace elements. In this work, the serum conte...

EGR2 is a human zinc finger encoding gene whose expression is induced with fos-like kinetics by diverse mitogens in several cell types. Since its cDNA sequence predicts a protein which contains zinc finger motifs, EGR2 may play a transcriptional regulatory role in cellular proliferation. The present study was undertaken to: 1) examine the genomic organization and 5' flanking sequence of EGR2 so...

BACKGROUND Trace elements have long been suspected to be involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis, but their exact roles have been remained controversial. In this study, we assessed the levels of copper (Cu), iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) in different stage of PD patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Serum concentrations of iron, copper and zinc were measured in 109 patients with PD by colorimet...

Objective: To study the relationship between Cleft lip and palate children with their trace elements in serum. Methods: All patients were divided into four groups. The first group of unilateral cleft lip was constituted with 72 patients. Accordance with the ratio 1:2 random survey, it selected the health children for control group. It detected the trace elements in serum by collecting 2-3 mL Fa...

This prospective study sought to investigate serum levels of trace elements (cobalt, copper, zinc, and selenium) and to assess their effects on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes. Serum levels of trace elements in 245 Korean pregnant women (median gestational age at delivery was 39 + 4 weeks and interquartile range was 38 + 4-40 + 1 weeks) were compared with those of 527 general adults and those o...