Diversity of selenium functions in health and disease / edited by Regina Brigelius-Flohé, Helmut Sies.
Named after Selene, Greek goddess of the moon, selenium (Se) has moved has moved from being thought of as a toxicant to being considered an essential nutrient with the potential to reduce cancer risk in the span of seven decades. Diversity of Selenium Functions in Health and Disease focuses on curre...
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CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2016]
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| Series: | Oxidative stress and disease ;
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Table of Contents:
- Who can benefit from selenium? / Gerald F. Combs, Jr.
- Selenium metabolism / Yasumitsu Ogra
- The molecular regulation of selenocysteine incorporation into proteins in eukaryotes / Aditi Dubey and Paul R. Copeland
- Selenocysteine tRNA: the central component of selenoprotein biosynthesis / Bradley A. Carlson, Ryuta Tobe, Petra A. Tsuji, Min-Hyuk Yoo, Lionel Feigenbaum, Lino Tessarollo, Byeong J. Lee, Ulrich Schweizer, Vadim N. Gladyshev, and Dolph L. Hatfield
- Redox cycling and the toxicity of selenium compounds: a historical view / Julian E. Spallholz
- Selenite in cancer therapy / Sougat Misra, Marita Wallenberg, Ola Brodin, and Mikael Björnstedt
- Forms of selenium in cancer prevention / Karam El-Bayoumy, Raghu Sinha, and John P. Richie, Jr.
- Thioredoxin reductase 1 / Bradley A. Carlson
- Glutathione Peroxidase 2 / Anna P. Kipp and Mike F. Müller
- The 15-kDa selenoprotein (SEP15) / Petra A. Tsuji and Cindy D. Davis
- Multifaceted and intriguing effects of selenium and selenoproteins on glucose metabolism and diabetes / Ji-Chang Zhou, Holger Steinbrenner, Margaret P. Rayman, and Xin Gen Lei
- Selenoproteins and the metabolic syndrome / Lucia A. Seale, Ann Marie Zavacki, and Marla J. Berry
- Thioredoxin reductase: a coordinator in metabolic activities / Sofi Eriksson and Edward E. Schmidt
- Selenium mediates a switch in macrophage polarization / K. Sandeep Prabhu, Avinash K. Kudva, and Shakira M. Nelson
- Genetic polymorphisms in selenoprotein genes, functionality and disease risk / Catherine Méplan, Janaina Lombello Santos Donadio, and John Hesketh
- Mutations in SECISBP2 / Erik Schoenmakers, Carla Moran, Nadia Schoenmakers, and Krishna Chatterjee.