Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Session I: Nutritional Requirements -- Trace Element Nutritional Requirements During Infancy -- Discussion I - 1 -- Aspects of some Trace Elements in Human Milk -- Intakes of Trace Elements by Indian Infants through Breast Milk and Commercial Milk Formulae -- The Determination and Speciation of Essential Trace Elements in Intravenous Infusion Solutions - Importance in Total Parenteral Nutrition -- Tissue Concentrations of Zinc and Iron in Rats Fed Whole Grains Wheat Bread or Endosperm Wheat Bread Supplemented with Iron -- Essential and Toxic Inorganic Elements in Prepared Meals - 24-Hour Dietary Sampling Employing the Duplicate Portion Technique -- On the Importance of Magnesium in Drinking Water -- Bioavailability of Minerals from Cereals -- Effect on Mineral Balances of Varying Amounts of Bran in Bread and a Constant Amount of Phytic Acid in Healthy Humans -- The Intestinal Distribution and Absorption of 65Zn and 59Fe in Rats Fed Endosperm Wheat Bread Supplemented with Zinc and Iron as Mineral Salts or in Bran -- The Intestinal Absorption in the Rat of 65Zn and 59Fe from Endosperm Wheat Bread with and without Zinc and Iron Supplementation -- Discussion 1 - 2 -- Session II: Metabolic and Biochemical Effects -- Impact of Methodology on the Development of our Knowledge of Trace Element Absorption, Transport and Storage -- Isolation of Metallothionein Isoforms in Rat Liver -- The Influence of Adrenal Corticoid Hormone on the Uptake of Cadmium in Liver and Kidney -- The Level of Zinc, Magnesium and Calcium in Coronary and Peripheral Blood under Extracorporal Circulation Conditions -- Effect of Zinc Deficiency on Prostaglandins F2? and E in the Rat -- Estimation of Cobalt by Neutron Activation Analysis in Gel-Electrophoretically Separated Microsomal Proteins from Cobalt Pretreated Mice -- Pixe Analysis of Trace Elements in Nuclei Acids - Messenger RNA and Zinc -- Effect of Previous Selenium Administration on Selenite Metabolism in Male and Female Rats -- Measurements of the Gastrointestinal Absorption of Chronium and Cadmium by Rats After Isotopic Labelling of the Feed -- The Concentration of Some Trace Elements in Bile of Farm Animals -- Cadmium in Blood and Brain and its Effects on Cerebral Aldehyde Reductase -- Arsenic Excretion by Man After Consumption of Plaice -- Discussion II -- Session III: Subclinical and Chronic Effects -- Subclinical and Chronic Effects of Trace Elements with Special Reference to Critical Effects -- Discussion III - 1 -- The Regional Distribution of Trace Elements in Human Lungs with Differentiation of the Fraction Present in the Deposited Dust -- Investigation of the Accumulation and Excretion of Al in Rats -- Structural Changes in the Kidney of Chronic Copper Poisoned Sheep -- Studies on the Role of Zinc in Host Defense Reactions -- New Results on the Experimental Investigation of Argyrosis -- Biochemical and Histological Investigations in the Ambient Tissue of Metallic Implants -- Some Aspects of Metal Determination in Liver Diseases -- The Health Effect of Cadmium in Relation to Changes in Physiological Levels of Dietary Calcium and Iron in Rats -- Discussion III - 2 -- Session IV: Diagnosis of Trace Element Supply -- Possibilities for the Diagnosis of Trace Element Deficiency -- Discussion IV - 1 -- Necessity of Routine Determination of Zinc in Clinical Chemistry -- Trace Element Levels of Amniotic Fluid at Term in Normal and High Risk Pregnancies -- Multielement Neutron Activation Analysis of Amniotic Fluid in Relation to Varying Gestational Membrane Ruptures -- Trace Elements in the Placenta of Normal Foetuses and Male Foetuses with Menkes Disease Determined by Neutron Activation Analysis -- Plasma and Amniotic Fluid Concentrations of Essential Chemical Elements During Pregnancy -- Discussion IV - 2 -- Steroid-Induced Changes in Plasma Protein-Bound Copper and Zinc in Post-Menopausal Woman -- The Use of Whole-Body Counting in Radionuclide Studies of Zinc Meta
