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    Selenium is an essential micronutrient for animals, though it is toxic in large doses. In plants, it sometimes occurs in toxic amounts as forage, e.g....
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    Selenium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Se and atomic number 34. It is a nonmetal (more rarely considered a metalloid) with properties that are...
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    Type of physical quantity Potassium in biology – Use of Potassium by organisms Selenium in biology – Use of Selenium by organisms Furumoto, Tsuyoshi (24...
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    Membrane potential – Type of physical quantity Selenium in biology – Use of Selenium by organisms Sodium in biology – Use of Sodium by organisms Pohl, Hanna...
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    disorder Potassium in biology – Use of Potassium by organisms Selenium in biology – Use of Selenium by organisms Sodium in biology – Use of Sodium by...
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    disorder Potassium in biology – Use of Potassium by organisms Selenium in biology – Use of Selenium by organisms Sodium in biology – Use of Sodium by...
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  • glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase. (See also selenium in biology and zinc in biology.) Uric acid has the highest concentration of any blood...
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    organisms Potassium in biology – Use of Potassium by organisms Selenium in biology – Use of Selenium by organisms Sodium in biology – Use of Sodium by...
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  • Selenium yeast is a feed additive for livestock, used to increase the selenium content in their fodder. It is a form of selenium currently approved for...
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    Selenocysteine (category Multiple chemicals in an infobox that need indexing)
    an analogue of the more common cysteine with selenium in place of the sulfur. Selenocysteine is present in several enzymes (for example glutathione peroxidases...
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    Mice engineered to lack SEPP1 did not increase neural precursors. Selenium in biology GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000250722 – Ensembl, May 2017 GRCm38:...
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    Most rare elements on Earth are not needed by life (exceptions being selenium and iodine), while a few common ones (aluminum and titanium) are not used...
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  • Lecythis ollaria (category Plants described in 1759)
    tree found growing in forests in Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. The tree is known locally as coco de mono, and accumulates selenium in its tissues. The...
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    In enzymology, a L-seryl-tRNASec selenium transferase (EC 2.9.1.1) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction L-seryl-tRNASec + selenophosphate...
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  • Selenium responsive proteins within human biology, are the class of proteins sensitive to selenium, in healthy human beings, in cancer patients, in in-vivo...
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  • rejuvenation. His work spans various dimensions of biology, including selenium biochemistry and redox biology, but is most notably recognized for his contributions...
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  • containing carbon-to-selenium chemical bonds. Selenium belongs with oxygen and sulfur to the group 16 elements or chalcogens, and similarities in chemistry are...
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    have been shown to be selenium-containing enzymes, whereas GPx6 is a selenoprotein in humans with cysteine-containing homologues in rodents. GPx1, GPx2...
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    constituents involved in antioxidant activities, such as iron, selenium, and glutathione, and therefore plays an important role in diseases in which oxidant stress...
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  • means of safely transporting the very reactive selenium atom throughout the body. Selenoproteins exist in all major domains of life, eukaryotes, bacteria...
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    Ergothioneine (category Multiple chemicals in an infobox that need indexing)
    form in acidic solutions. Various derivatives of ergothioneine have been reported in the literature, such as S-methyl-ergothioneine or selenium-containing...
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  • Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, or SELECT, was a clinical trial conducted with the goal of determining whether vitamin E and selenium...
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    Biometals are metals normally present, in small but important and measurable amounts, in biology, biochemistry, and medicine. The metals copper, zinc...
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  • Metalloid (section Selenium)
    classified: carbon, aluminium, selenium, polonium and astatine. On a standard periodic table, all eleven elements are in a diagonal region of the p-block...
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    is the selenium analogue of carbon disulfide (CS2) and carbon dioxide (CO2). This light-sensitive compound is insoluble in water and soluble in organic...
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  • This is a list of topics in molecular biology. See also index of biochemistry articles. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V...
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    found in nature. It is possible to enrich melanin with selenium instead of sulphur. This selenium analogue of pheomelanin has been successfully synthesized...
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  • Headings (MeSH) Dolph L. Hatfield, ed. (6 December 2012). Selenium: Its Molecular Biology and Role in Human Health. Springer. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-4614-1025-6...
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    Hasan Abdullayev (category Selenium)
    «Элм», 1974 Selenium in Biology. Abdullayev H.B. "Elm", Baku, 1974. Селен в Биологии. Г.Б.Абдуллаев. Баку., Изд. «Элм», 1974 Selenium Fritter. Abdullayev...
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    Albinism (redirect from Albinism in biology)
    metals (e.g. arsenic, cadmium, copper, mercury, selenium, zinc). In the wild, albinism is reasonably common in the teleosts, especially the Pleuronectiformes...
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