enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Selenium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium

    Selenium at nutritional levels or low concentrations is required for cell homeostasis, playing a role as an anti-oxidant through selenoproteins, thus, act chemo-preventive against cancer. In contrast, supra-nutritional levels or higher concentrations act as pro-oxidant in tumour cells, thus can be exploited as chemo-therapeutic against cancer .

  3. Selenium in biology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_in_biology

    Selenium at nutritional levels is required for cell homeostasis, playing a role as an anti-oxidant through selenoproteins, thus, act chemo-preventive against cancer. In contrast, supra-nutritional levels act as pro-oxidant toxic in tumour cells. [39] Selenium has bimodal biological action

  4. List of human blood components - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_blood_components

    Selenium : 60–150 ng/mL Aldosterone: ... Maintain calcium and phosphorus levels 1.7-4.1 ... Assists muscle cell energy supply male

  5. Selenium deficiency - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_deficiency

    Selenium deficiency occurs when an organism lacks the required levels of selenium, a critical nutrient in many species.Deficiency, although relatively rare in healthy well-nourished individuals, [1] can have significant negative results, [2] affecting the health of the heart and the nervous system; contributing to depression, anxiety, and dementia; and interfering with reproduction and gestation.

  6. Mineral (nutrient) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_(nutrient)

    The generally accepted trace elements are iron, chlorine, cobalt, copper, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, iodine, selenium, [5] and bromine; [6] there is some evidence that there may be more. The four organogenic elements, namely carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , and nitrogen ( CHON ), that comprise roughly 96% of the human body by weight, [ 7 ] are ...

  7. Periodic table - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

    Periodic tables usually at least show the elements' symbols; many also provide supplementary information about the elements, either via colour-coding or as data in the cells. The above table shows the names and atomic numbers of the elements, and also their blocks, natural occurrences and standard atomic weights. For the short-lived elements ...

  8. A type of bacteria dubbed “Conan the Bacterium” can withstand radiation thousands of times stronger than what can kill a human. Now, scientists have figured out why.

  9. Selenocysteine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenocysteine

    When cells are grown in the absence of selenium, translation of selenoproteins terminates at the UGA codon, resulting in a truncated, nonfunctional enzyme. The UGA codon is made to encode selenocysteine by the presence of a selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS) in the mRNA. The SECIS element is defined by characteristic nucleotide sequences ...