Platelet selenium in children with normal and low selenium intake
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Biological Trace Element Research
- Vol. 4 (1), 29-34
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02789131
Abstract
The concentration of selenium was determined by instrumental neutron activation analysis in erythrocytes, platelets, and plasma of eight dietetically treated children with phenylketonuria (n=6) or maple-syrup-urine disease (n=2) with low selenium intake and for ten children with normal selenium intake. The normal selenium concentration in platelets was about 600 ng/g and about five times higher than in erythrocytes of the same children. A decreased selenium concentration in platelets was seen only when the corresponding concentrations in erythrocytes and plasma were very low. This suggests a special role of selenium in platelets.Keywords
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