Table of Contents:
  • General overview: Chapter 1. AIN-93 purified diets for the study of trace elements metabolism in rodents
  • Chapter 2. Basic tissue preparation for electron microscopy assessment of rodents
  • Iron: Chapter 3. Dietary iron: Deficiency of excess
  • Chapter 4. The use of iron- dextran to produce iron overload in rodents
  • Chapter 5. Extraction and analysis of iron species in diet and gut
  • Manganese: Chapter 6. Manganese deficiency and excess in rodents
  • Chapter 7. Manganese uptake in tissues in vitro: Tissue slices as models
  • Selenium: Chapter 8. Selenium diets: deficiency and excess
  • Chapter 9. Selenium in tissue culture
  • Copper: Chapter 10. Copper- deficient and excess diets: Theoretical considerations and preparations
  • Chapter 11. Copper in tissue culture
  • Zinc: Chapter 12. Zinc diets: Deficiency and excess
  • Chapter 13. Zinc radiotracer in the study of the mechanism of zinc homeostasis
  • Other trace elements: Chapter 14. Dietary boron deficiency and supplementation
  • Chapter15. Measurements of baron in rodent diets and tissues
  • Chapter 16. Methods for studying dietary lead and its toxicity in rodents
  • Chapter 17. Methods in chromium dietary supplementation
  • Chapter 18. Isolation and in Vitro analysis of biologically active Chapter19. Calcium bioavalability using a ret model
  • Chapter 20. Vanadium: Quantitation, essentiality and pharmacologic and toxicological studies in rodents
  • Chapter 21. Nickel- low diet formulation and tissue nickel measurement
  • Index