Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Session I: Nutritional Requirements -- Trace Element Nutritional Requirements During Infancy -- Discussion I - 1 -- Aspects of some Trace Elements in Human Milk -- Intakes of Trace Elements by Indian Infants through Breast Milk and Commercial Milk Formulae -- The Determination and Speciation of Essential Trace Elements in Intravenous Infusion Solutions - Importance in Total Parenteral Nutrition -- Tissue Concentrations of Zinc and Iron in Rats Fed Whole Grains Wheat Bread or Endosperm Wheat Bread Supplemented with Iron -- Essential and Toxic Inorganic Elements in Prepared Meals - 24-Hour Dietary Sampling Employing the Duplicate Portion Technique -- On the Importance of Magnesium in Drinking Water -- Bioavailability of Minerals from Cereals -- Effect on Mineral Balances of Varying Amounts of Bran in Bread and a Constant Amount of Phytic Acid in Healthy Humans -- The Intestinal Distribution and Absorption of 65Zn and 59Fe in Rats Fed Endosperm Wheat Bread Supplemented with Zinc and Iron as Mineral Salts or in Bran -- The Intestinal Absorption in the Rat of 65Zn and 59Fe from Endosperm Wheat Bread with and without Zinc and Iron Supplementation -- Discussion 1 - 2 -- Session II: Metabolic and Biochemical Effects -- Impact of Methodology on the Development of our Knowledge of Trace Element Absorption, Transport and Storage -- Isolation of Metallothionein Isoforms in Rat Liver -- The Influence of Adrenal Corticoid Hormone on the Uptake of Cadmium in Liver and Kidney -- The Level of Zinc, Magnesium and Calcium in Coronary and Peripheral Blood under Extracorporal Circulation Conditions -- Effect of Zinc Deficiency on Prostaglandins F2ʆ and E in the Rat -- Estimation of Cobalt by Neutron Activation Analysis in Gel-Electrophoretically Separated Microsomal Proteins from Cobalt Pretreated Mice -- Pixe Analysis of Trace Elements in Nuclei Acids - Messenger RNA and Zinc -- Effect of Previous Selenium Administration on Selenite Metabolism in Male and Female Rats -- Measurements of the Gastrointestinal Absorption of Chronium and Cadmium by Rats After Isotopic Labelling of the Feed -- The Concentration of Some Trace Elements in Bile of Farm Animals -- Cadmium in Blood and Brain and its Effects on Cerebral Aldehyde Reductase -- Arsenic Excretion by Man After Consumption of Plaice -- Discussion II -- Session III: Subclinical and Chronic Effects -- Subclinical and Chronic Effects of Trace Elements with Special Reference to Critical Effects -- Discussion III - 1 -- The Regional Distribution of Trace Elements in Human Lungs with Differentiation of the Fraction Present in the Deposited Dust -- Investigation of the Accumulation and Excretion of Al in Rats -- Structural Changes in the Kidney of Chronic Copper Poisoned Sheep -- Studies on the Role of Zinc in Host Defense Reactions -- New Results on the Experimental Investigation of Argyrosis -- Biochemical and Histological Investigations in the Ambient Tissue of Metallic Implants -- Some Aspects of Metal Determination in Liver Diseases -- The Health Effect of Cadmium in Relation to Changes in Physiological Levels of Dietary Calcium and Iron in Rats -- Discussion III - 2 -- Session IV: Diagnosis of Trace Element Supply -- Possibilities for the Diagnosis of Trace Element Deficiency -- Discussion IV - 1 -- Necessity of Routine Determination of Zinc in Clinical Chemistry -- Trace Element Levels of Amniotic Fluid at Term in Normal and High Risk Pregnancies -- Multielement Neutron Activation Analysis of Amniotic Fluid in Relation to Varying Gestational Membrane Ruptures -- Trace Elements in the Placenta of Normal Foetuses and Male Foetuses with Menkes Disease Determined by Neutron Activation Analysis -- Plasma and Amniotic Fluid Concentrations of Essential Chemical Elements During Pregnancy -- Discussion IV - 2 -- Steroid-Induced Changes in Plasma Protein-Bound Copper and Zinc in Post-Menopausal Woman -- The Use of Whole-Body Counting in Radionuclide Studies of Zinc Metabolism in Man -- Trace Element Analytical Chemistry in the People's Republic of China -- The Deposition of Inorganic Mercury in Newly Grown Hair of the Rat -- Miroin a Metallic Neuropeptide in the Nervous System -- A Role for Thiomolybdates in the CU X MO X S Interaction in Ruminant Nutrition -- Urinary Arsenic in a Finnish Population without Occupational Exposure to Arsenic -- Urinary Excretion of Total and Hexavalent Chromium in Workers Exposed to Trivalent and Hexavalent Chromium -- The Zinc, Copper and Iron Status in Children with Chronic Diseases -- Discussion IV - 3 -- Session V: Analytical Requirements and Potentialities -- Clinical Aspects of Sampling -- Discussion V - 1 -- Iron, Copper and Zinc Determinations in Maternal and Newborn Sera -- Determination of Chromium in Urine by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry -- Determination of Heavy Metals in Urine - Avantages of a Clean-Up Procedure -- A Quality Control Programme of Metal Analyses for Occupational Toxicology Laboratories -- Determination of Manganese in Human Tissue by Radiochemical Neutron Activation Analysis with Special Reference to the Samples of Small Sizes -- Speciation of Trace Elements in Biological Matrices -- Application of an EDXRF-Spectrometer in Clinical Investigations -- The Application of Direct Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry Determination of Selenium in Clinical Chemistry -- Discussion V - 2 -- The Importance of Quality Control for Estimating Dose-Effect and Dose-Response Relationships -- Systematic Errors in Reactor Neutron Activation Analysis of Trace Elements in Biological Materials -- Nuclear Methods for Elemental Analysis of Calcified Tissue -- Trace Element Analysis of Human Hair by Proton Induced X-Ray Spectroscopy -- An Improved Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Technique for the Determination of Copper and Zinc in Plasma Protein Fractions -- Trace Element Investigations on some New Biological Test Materials -- Systematic Errors and Quality Assurance in the Trace Element Analysis of (Normal) Human Serum -- Application of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry for Metabolic Studies Involving Non-Radioactive Tracers -- Study of some Factors Affecting the Efficiency of the Wet-Digestion Procedures for the Total and/or Differential Determination of Selenium in Biological Materials -- Measurement of Zinc in Serum Proteins -- Measurement of Zinc and Copper in Leucocytes -- Trace Metals in Forensic Toxicology -- Discussion V - 3 -- Analytical Aspects of Sample Collection, Sample Storage and Sample Treatment -- Discussion V - 4 -- Trace Element Contamination of Human Plasma from Washed and Unwashed Specimen Collection Tubes of Different Materials -- Some ICP and MIP Atomic Emission Spectrochemical Techniques for the Analysis of Small-Volume Samples in Biology and Medicine -- Direct Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Determination of Selenium and Chromium in Biological Fluids -- Experiences with Cadmium Determination in Human Blood Samples -- Electrothermal Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry of Aluminium, Lead and Zinc in CSF Samples -- Speciation Analysis by Graphite Furnace AAS -- The Application of ICP and NAA to the Evaluation of a New Biological Multielement Test Material -- Determination of the Distribution of Cadmium in Rat Hair by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry -- The Depth Distribution of Fluoride in Surface Enamel: Electron Spectroscopic Investigations -- The Preparation of Biological Samples for Multi-Element Analysis by Spark Source Mass Spectrometry -- Pixe-Analysis of Liquid Samples -- Trace Element Analysis of Biological Samples by Means of a Proton Microprobe -- Pixe Studies of Ethnic Differences of Trace - and other Elements Concentration in Human Hair -- Elemental Composition of Liver Samples Using X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis -- Application of Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Method -EDXRFfor the Determination of ppb Concentrations of Selenium and some Metals in Blood and Tissue -- Studies of the Specific Nature of some Game Species with Respect to some Micro-Elements -- The Detection of Heavy Metals from Biological Material by GLC and HPLC via the Diethyldithiocarbamates (DEDTC) -- Comparison of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy for Multielemental Analyses of Diets Faeces and Urine -- Direct Determination of Cobalt in Whole-Blood by Electrothermal Atomization and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy -- The Determination of Selenium in Plasma and Whole Blood -- Time-Resolved Ultra-Sensitive Fluorescence Detection for Enzyme Analysis -- Microanalysis with the Laser Probe Mass Spectrograph (LPMS) -- Optimization and Long Term Stability of the Induction Coupled Plasma in a Synthetical Biological Matrix -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatterweiterlesen