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The link between selenium and chemoprevention: a case for selenoproteins.
The Journal of nutrition - 1 Nov 2004
Diwadkar-Navsariwala Veda, Diamond Alan M
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Selenium is effective in reducing cancer incidence in animal models, and epidemiologic data, as well as supplementation trials, have indicated that selenium is likely to be effective in humans. The mechanism by which selenium prevents cancer remains unknown. The mammalian genome encodes 25 selenoprotein genes, each containing one or more molecules of selenium in the form of the amino acid selenocysteine,...
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