1. Changes in serum copper level during detoxification of acutely poisoned drug addicts

   • Wojciech Piekoszewski
   • Janusz Pach
   • Lidia Winnik

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 6

2. Does the platelet-activating factor affect the antioxidant defense system?

   • Gülseli Yildirim
   • Metin Baştuğ
   • Nezahat Zaloğlu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 12

3. Pleural effusions and sera from patients with benign or malignant diseases

   • Wolfgang Domej
   • Michael Krachler
   • Kurt J. Irgolic

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 33

4. Thyroid hypofunction in Down’s syndrome

   • Øivind Juris Kanavin
   • Jan Aaseth
   • Grethe Støa Birketvedt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 42

5. Differences in the mineral contents between falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli

   • Yoshiyuki Tohno
   • Setsuko Tohno
   • Hiroshi Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 52

6. Concentrations of copper, zinc, manganese, rubidium, and magnesium in thoracic empyemata and corresponding sera

   • Wolfgang Domej
   • Michael Krachler
   • Johanna Katharina Lang

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 66

7. Method developments for iodine speciation by reversed-phase liquid chromatography-ICP-mass spectrometry

   • Bernhard Michalke
   • Peter Schramel
   • Heidi Witte

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 79

8. Iodine speciation in human serum by reversed-phase liquid chromatography-ICP-mass spectrometry

   • Bernhard Michalke
   • Peter Schramel
   • Heidi Witte

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 91

9. Potassium supplements’ effect on potassium balance in athletes during prolonged hypokinetic and ambulatory conditions

   • Yan G. Zorbas
   • Vassily J. Kakurin
   • Sergei D. Denogradov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 112

10. Comparison of chromosome damage induced by three zinc compounds using human leukocyte culture

    • Madhumita Santra
    • Geeta Talukder
    • Archana Sharma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 119

11. Relative and combined effects of ethanol and protein deficiency on some hair trace elements

    • E. Gonzalez-Reimers
    • F. Santolaria-Fernandez
    • F. Barroso-Guerrero

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 129

12. Trace element distribution in heart tissue sections studied by nuclear microscopy is changed in coxsackie virus B3 myocarditis in methyl mercury-exposed mice

    • Nils-Gunnar Ilbäck
    • Ulf Lindh
    • Göran Friman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 147

13. Effect of cold-restraint stress on the distribution of trace elements in rat tissues

    • V. Nimet Izgüt-Uysal
    • Narin Der.in
    • Arzu Ağaç

    OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 155

14. Inhibitory effects of sophoraflavanones B and H in Sophora mooracroftiana Beth ex Baker on copper-ion-induced protein oxidative modification of mice brain homogenate in vitro

    • Shizuo Toda
    • Yoshiaki Shirataki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 162

15. Zinc toxicity in various lung cell lines is mediated by glutathione and GSSG reductase activity

    • U. I. Walther
    • B. Wilhelm
    • B. Fichtl

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 177

16. Marginal copper deficiency and atherosclerosis

    • Iona M. J. Hamilton
    • William S. Gilmore
    • J. J. Strain

    OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 189

17. Influence of excessive fluoride consumption on the severity of dystrophic cardiac calcification in DBA/2 mice

    • F. A. R. van den Broek
    • J. Ritskes-Hoitinga
    • A. C. Beynen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 203

18. Biological roles of titanium

    • Safie Yaghoubi
    • Chad W. Schwietert
    • John P. McCue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 217

19. Cadmium-induced liver, heart, and spleen lipid peroxidation in rats and protection by selenium

    • Shuenn-Jiun Yiin
    • Chi-Liang Chern
    • Te-Hsien Lin

    OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 230

20. Increased zinc absorption but not secretion in the small intestine of metallothionein-null mice

    • B. Hinskens
    • J. C. Philcox
    • A. M. Rofe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 231 - 240

21. Effect of arsenic trioxide on metallothionein and its conversion to different arsenic metabolites in hen liver

    • Ingrid Falnoga
    • Vekoslava Stibilj
    • Janez Ščančar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 254

22. Effect of surgically induced cholestasis on the levels of hepatic zinc and metallothionein in rat liver

    • E. Brambila
    • J. L. Munoz-Sanchez
    • A. Albores

    OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 264

23. Effect of lanthanum on ion absorption in cucumber seedling leaves

    • Fu Li Zeng
    • Ping Shi
    • Ru Wen Deng

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 270

24. Determination of total aluminum, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, and nickel and their fractions leached to the infusions of black tea, green tea, Hibiscus sabdariffa, and Ilex paraguariensis (mate) by ETA-AAS

    • Katarzyna Wróbel
    • Kazimierz Wróbel
    • Edith Madaí Colunga Urbina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 271 - 280