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Reduced reliance on the trace element selenium during evolution of mammals

BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element that occurs in proteins in the form of selenocysteine (Sec). It is transported throughout the body in the form of Sec residues in Selenoprotein P (SelP), a plasma protein of unclear origin recently proposed as an experimental marker of dietary...

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Autores principales: Lobanov, Alexey V, Hatfield, Dolph L, Gladyshev, Vadim N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2397514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18377657
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-r62