Background Patients with liver cirrhosis often exhibit zinc deficiency. Although zinc is involved in many bioactivities, many aspects of clinical implications of zinc deficiency in liver cirrhosis remain unclear. We aimed to reveal the prevalence and implications of zinc deficiency in liver cirrhosis by assessing associations with parameters such as clinical symptoms and laboratory data. Meth...

The green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. From the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. To improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. Though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

Zinc Deficiency in Human Subjects is a 268-page book detailing the proceedings of an international symposium held in Ankara, Turkey, in April 1982. Volume 129 in the series, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, the book details varied original scientific research on zinc deficiency done primarily in Turkey. Ananda Prasad, the first to document zinc deficiency in humans, outlines the hi...

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests a link between low zinc levels and depression. There is, however, little knowledge about zinc levels in older persons with other psychiatric diagnoses. Therefore, we explore the zinc status of elderly patients suffering from a wide range of psychiatric disorders. METHODS Clinical data and blood samples for zinc analyzes were collected from 100 psychogeria...

Zinc Deficiency in Human Subjects is a 268-page book detailing the proceedings of an international symposium held in Ankara, Turkey, in April 1982. Volume 129 in the series, Progress in Clinical and Biological Research, the book details varied original scientific research on zinc deficiency done primarily in Turkey. Ananda Prasad, the first to document zinc deficiency in humans, outlines the hi...

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...

It is well recognised that zinc deficiency is a major global public health issue, particularly in young children in low-income countries with diarrhoea and environmental enteropathy. Zinc supplementation is regarded as a powerful tool to correct zinc deficiency as well as to treat a variety of physiologic and pathologic conditions. However, the dose and frequency of its use as well as the choic...

Zinc deficiency induces a wide range of disorders including immunodeficiency. It is known that microbial infections occur with a high frequency in the zinc-deficient hosts, but the study on the correlation between parasitic infection and zinc status in hosts is scarcely performed. We observed that the influence of zinc deficiency to the rats infected with Babesia rodhaini. Experiments of B. rod...