Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Session I. MODELS FOR TRACE ELEMENT METABOLISM -- TRACE ELEMENT REQUIREMENT MODELS BASED ON PHYSIOLOGICAL AND METABOLIC PROCESSES -- MODELS FOR TRACE ELEMENT METABOLISM IN HUMANS -- Session II. TRACE ELEMENTS IN NUTRITION -- DIETARY REQUIREMENTS FOR TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMANS -- PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TRACE ELEMENT SUPPLEMENTATION IN EARLY INFANCY -- DIETARY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TRACE ELEMENT INTAKE -- DIETARY FIBER AND THE BIOAVAILABILITY OF ESSENTIAL TRACE ELEMENTS, A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC -- ESTIMATION OF TRACE ELEMENT iiiOAVA I LABILITY : INTESTINAL ABSORPTION FROM IRON ENRICHED DIETETIC FOODS -- DIURNAL CHANGES OF HUMAN SERUM IRON, ZINC, COPPER, SELENIUM, AND MAGNESIUM CONCENTRATIONS -- TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATION IN SERUM OF INFANTS IN RELATION TO DIETARY SOURCES -- INGESTION/EXCRETION EXPERIMENTS FOR ARSENIC IN FISH -- INGESTION OP MERCURY DURING EARLY INFANCY -- AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON MINOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS IN TOTAL DIETS -- THE INFLUENCE OF HOME PREPARATION AND EATING HABITS ON DAILY CHROMIUM INTAKE -- THE CONCENTRATION OF 19 TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE SWISS DIET -- Session III: TRACE ELEMENT INTERACTIONS -- INTERACTIONS OF TRACE ELEMENTS AND ENZYMES IN HUMANS -- TOXIC ACTIONS OF ESSENTIAL TRACE ELEMENTS (Mo, Cu, Zn, Fe, Mn) -- ADVANCES IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF ZINC-COPPER ANTAGONISM AND ITrS APPLICATIONS TO THE TREATMENT OF WILSON'S DISEASE -- AN ORAL ZINC LOADING TEST USING AN ENRICHED STABLE ZINC ISOTOPE -- METAL-DEFICIENT DIETS CAUSE TISSUE-SPECIFIC ALTERATIONS OF TRACE ELEMENTS -- MOBILIZATION OF ZINC AND STRONTIUM FROM BONE IN ZN DEFICIENT RATS -- STUDIES ON IRON OVERLOAD: EFFECTS OF VITAMIN C AND DESFERRIOXAMINE TREATMENT -- ENZYMES AS INDICATORS OF ZINC STATUS -- SELENIUM STATUS PARAMETERS: RESPONSE TO A SIX-WEEK DIETARY MODIFICATION AND INTRA- AND INTERINDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY -- ZINC AND CADMIUM CONCENTRATIONS IN LIVER AND PLACENTAS OF RATS: ARE THEY INTERRELATED? -- PLATELET AND ERYTHROCYTE KINETICS STUDIED WITH SELENIUM-74 -- PARTICIPATION OF METALLOTHI ONE IN AND CEREBRAL STRUCTURES IN IRON HOMEOSTASIS OF ANEMIC RATS -- REGRESSION MODEL FOR THE THYMIC GLAND MORPHOLOGY BY CADMIUM AND ZINKIN INDUCTION BY ZINC -- Session IV: TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF BODY FLUIDS AND TISSUES -- APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROANALYTICAL FLOW ANALYSIS IN THE TRACE ELEMENT DETERMINATION OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS -- OPTIMIZATION OF A DIRECT PROCEDURE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SELENIUM IN PLASMA AND ERYTHROCYTES USING ZEEMAN EFFECT ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY -- STUDY OF THE SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION OF THE SELENIUM CONCENTRATION IN WHOLE BLOOD OF NEW-BORNSANDYOUNGCHILDREN -- TRACE ELEMENT DISTRIBUTIONS IN HUMAN LIVER LOBULES DETERMINED WITH MICRO-PIXE -- DIRECT DETERMINATION OF SELENIUM AND RUBIDIUM IN PLASMA AND BLOOD USING ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY FLUORESCENCE (EDXRF). RELATION BETWEEN RUBIDIUM AND SELENIUM LEVELS AND DISEASES -- DETERMINATION OE CADMIUM AND LEAD IN ANIMAL LIVER AND FREEZE DRIED BLOOD BY GRAPHITE FURNACE ZEEMAN ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY AND SOLID SAMPLING -- HANGING MERCURY DROP ELECTROCHEMICAL PRECONCENTRATION AND SEPARATION TECHNIQUE FOR INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA WITH ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION -- Session V: SIGNIFICANCE OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN MEDICINE -- TRACE ELEMENTS IN CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY. A REVIEW -- TRACE ELEMENTS, MICROSOMAL LIVER ENZYME INDUCTION AND AMINO-ACIDS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE IN BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY -- ALUMINIUM IN THE MAINTENANCE DIET OF RATS -- LASER MICROPROBE MASS ANALYSIS (LAMMA) OF PARATHYROID GLANDS FROM DIALYSIS PATIENTS -- SPECIATION STUDY OF CHROMIUM DURING PERITONEAL DIALYSIS -- ALUMINIUM TRANSFER DURING HEMODIALYSIS -- THE INFLUENCE OF ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE AND SUCRALFATE ON SERUM ALUMINIUM LEVELS IN CHRONIC DIALYSIS PATIENTS -- EXPOSURE OF INFANTS TO ALUMINIUM FROM MILK FORMULAE AND INTRAVENOUS FLUIDS -- INTRAVENOUS INFUSIONS CAN CAUSE ALUMINIUM TOXICITY -- SPECIATION OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN HUMAN TISSUES: