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SUBMITTER: Gawor A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179315 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gawor Andrzej A Ruszczyńska Anna A Konopka Anna A Wryk Grzegorz G Czauderna Marian M Bulska Ewa E
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20220531 11
Selenium is an essential nutrient, building twenty five identified selenoproteins in humans known to perform several important biological functions. The small amount of selenium in the earth's crust in certain regions along with the risk of deficiency in organisms have resulted in increasingly popular dietary supplementation in animals, implemented via, e.g., inorganic selenium compounds. Even though selenium is included in selenoproteins in the form of selenocysteine, the dietary effect of sele ...[more]