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Selenium-Related Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression
2018-08-04
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Selenium is a trace metal essential to human health, and its deficiency has been related to, for instance, cardiovascular and myodegenerative diseases, infertility and osteochondropathy Kashin-Beck disease. It is incorporated as selenocysteine to selenoproteins, which protect against reactive oxygen and nitrogen species. They also participate in the activation of thyroid hormone, and play a role in immune system f...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4de49630-4725-563e-8de2-5d44ca27071a
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201808.0087.v1