Institutions Participa SCAMPs as of Augus Baylor Health Care System Baystate Medical Center (Sp Boston Children’s Hospital Boston Medical Center (Bos Brigham and Women’s Ho MA) Child Heart Associates (Wor Children’s Hospital of Wisco kee, WI) Children’s National Me (Washington, DC) Connecticut Children’s M (Hartford, CT) Dartmouth-Hitchcock Me (Manchester, NH) Harvard Vanguard Medic (Boston, MA...

BACKGROUND Nutritional zinc deficiency in rats increases esophageal cell proliferation and the incidence of N-nitrosomethylbenzylamine (NMBA)-induced esophageal tumors. Replenishing zinc with a zinc-sufficient diet reduces these effects in zinc-deficient (ZD) rats. We investigated whether apoptosis was involved in the reduction of NMBA-induced esophageal tumors when ZD rats consumed a zinc-suff...

heavy metals are considered one of the most important environmental pollution and are dissolved form or adsorbed to the suspended solides in the urban storm runoffs and infiltratire ponds. in this article the heavy metals of urban storm runoff and sediments of infiltration pond in shiraz city have been investigated. the results show different pollutions in the urban storm runoffs such as dissol...

introduction: zinc has a significant positive effect on the immune system and physical development in human beings. many investigators believe that the level of plasma zinc in thalasemic patients is reduced firstly because of receiving chelators like desferoxamin, and secondly because of impairment of some organs like kidney, liver, thyroid and hypophysis. therefore this study was carried out t...

after iron deficiency, zinc deficiency is the major micronutrient deficiency in developing countries, and staple food fortification is an effective strategy to prevent and improve it among at-risk-populations. no action has been taken to reduce zinc deficiency via flour fortification so far in iran, and little is known about the influence of zinc fortification of flour on serum zinc and the iro...