ON THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME TRACE METALS IN THE EVE
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF SOME TRACE METALS IN THE EVE
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关于前夕中某些微量金属的出现
DOI:
10.1111/j.1755-3768.1954.tb05046.x
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发表时间:
1954
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
A. Oksala
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作者:
A. Oksala
In addition to organic matter, the organism also contains to a lesser degree some inorganic substances which, in spite of their sinall amounts, are highly significant as structural and motive power material of the organism. Among these inorganic substances the so-called trace elements form a group of their own. Our knowledge about the occurrence of trace metals in and significance for the living organism is very deficient. We do not even know about several substances whether they are essential to life or whether, when found e.g. in organs, they have chanced to drift there by way of nutrition. Different species of animals may be in need of different trace substances. and this need can even be affected by age. I t has been proved e. g. that the mang,anese content of the liver greatly increases with advancing age, whereas the iron content increases until the age of virility and begins to fall thereafter. Instead, the copper and zinc content of the liver slightly decrease with advancing age. Approximately 40 elements belonging to the trace substances have been found in the organism. However, only a few of them have been proved essential for humans and animals. These are iron (Fe) , copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn) , cobalt (Co) , iodine ( I ) and fluorine (F) . The essentiality of a h ininium (Al), boron ( B ) , bromine (Br) , silicon (Si) , molybdenum (Mo) etc. ist still a matter of controversy.