The disturbances of the zinc concentration in the blood in selected neoplasms
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Atomic Absorbance Spectroscopy to Measure Intracellular Zinc Pools in Mammalian Cells
Published on: May 16, 2019
Malgorzata Schlegel-Zawadzka1, Zbigniew Kopański, Wojciech Piekoszewski
1Department of Human Nutrition, Institute of Public Health, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Abstract:
A study was carried out on 92 patients (58 males and 34 females) aged 42-76 treated for malignant neoplasm of the gastrointestinal tract (54 patients with colorectal carcinoma, 38 with gastric carcinoma). In all patients, the zinc serum concentration was measured and the results obtained were referred to some epidemiological-clinical factors (sex, age, primary cause of cancer, the stage of clinical progression, and histological type). The results showed that the most pronounced hypozincemia occurred in male patients with mucous membrane carcinoma of the stomach.
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