Selenium in Nutrition, Revised Edition (1983) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 133-135
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, have a zone of iron and aluminum compounds that bind selenium, and developed under humid conditions. Low-selenium soils are found in the Pacific Northwest, northern and eastern Canada, the northeastern United States, the South Atlantic seaboard, and in a border region of Arizona and New Mexico.
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Liver cells seemingly have vitamin E and GSH-Px organized in a serial fashion, with vitamin E found in the lipophilic cell membrane. Prooxidants presumably originate in the hydrophilic portions of the cell, and their molecular target is the membrane.
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Pancreatic dystrophy in chicks can result from an uncomplicated selenium deficiency. Plasma activity of certain enzymes, such as aspartate aminotransferase, ornithine carbamyl transferase, alanine aminotransferase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase, and verb ate dehydrogenase may increase in response to different types of tissue damage.
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