ABSTRACT
Written by the international community's leading experts, Trace Elements in Laboratory Rodents describes the best and most current methods to provide deficient or supplemental trace elements to laboratory animals, as well as how to assay them. The experts warn of the common pitfalls and hidden problems in nutritional testing and how to avoid them. This how-to approach focuses on the technical details that make good, reliable studies. Common as well as rare or recently recognized minerals are described relating to both dietary supplementation and measurement in tissues.
If you are a researcher, professor, or student working in nutrition, food science, biochemistry, or veterinary medicine, you can't afford to be without this excellent hands-on methods manual!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |47 pages
General Overview
chapter Chapter 1|35 pages
AIN-93 Purified Diets for the Study of Trace Element Metabolism in Rodents
part |33 pages
Iron
part |38 pages
Manganese
part |23 pages
Selenium
part |43 pages
Copper
chapter Chapter 10|15 pages
Copper-Deficient and Excess Diets: Theoretical Considerations and Preparations
part |37 pages
Zinc
part |138 pages
Other Trace Elements