BACKGROUND The incidence of fragility fractures has increased during the last half of the 1990's. One important determinant of fractures is the bone mineral content (BMC) or bone mineral density (BMD), the amount of mineralised bone. If we could increase peak bone mass (the highest value of BMC reached during life) and/or decrease the age-related bone loss, we could possibly improve the skeleta...

Since 1994 till today a few up to date have been made on the NRC (1994) recommendations for trace mineral requirements of broilers. The high prevalence of skeletal disorders in modern broilers could be a consequence of the uncoordinated growth rate and mineral nutrition. The commercial companies of broiler production often use a huge safety margin of trace minerals in feed formulation, which wi...

Selenium is an essential mineral element to humans and animals because it is an important component of selenoproteins that are important for functioning of the metabolism. Because of poor soil conditions in various regions of the world, the enrichment of edible plants with selenium via the biofortification strategy has been implemented. However, selenium in the context of plant mineral nutritio...

Nutrition impairment commonly occurs in patients with heart failure and affects disease progression. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are associated with early mortality, particularly in patients classified as cachectic. Guideline-based therapies approved for heart failure, such as loop diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, aldosterone antagonist...

The avocado grower is usually familiar with deficiency symptoms such as those caused by lack of sufficient iron (3), zinc (11), and nitrogen (4). Also excesses of certain elements produce characteristic symptoms which may be readily identified, e. g. chloride and sodium (2, 9). However, little information is available concerning the remaining elements absorbed by the tree, their symptoms along ...

The nutrient quality of forage, particularly perennial warm-season grasses, is often lacking in trace mineral content to supply the requirements of most all classes of grazing cattle. Since forage is the most significant contributor to the trace mineral nutrition of grazing beef cattle, it is important to consider these deficits and how they may impact the performance of the cattle consuming th...

Poultry fat has become a more economical source of energy than byproducts currently used. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the effects of dietary fat source (poultry fat or beef tallow) in finishing diets for cattle on the fatty acid composition of beef. Sixty Angus crossbred steers (410.8 kg initial BW) were stratified by source, blocked by weight, and assigned within block to ...

`Growth and mineral nutrition of ®eld crops' deals with plants that constitute the basic staple food for most of the world population, and with some plants that are important as livestock feed or provide raw material for industrial processes. As stated by the authors in their Preface, the book takes an applied approach, and is supported in great part by experimental results obtained in Brazil, ...

The accumulations and partitions of mineral elements and dry matter in upland cotton plants were followed: A, at five-day intervals for thirty days starting with the seed with the plants growing in Hoagland's solution in a warm-to-hot summer greenhouse, and B, at 15-day intervals from thirty days after planting to maturity in field plantings. The latter data are not original but are recalculate...