Zinc is involved in a variety of biological processes, as a structural, catalytic, and intracellular
and intercellular signaling component. Thus zinc homeostasis is tightly controlled at the …

Zinc homeostasis is crucial for an adequate function of the immune system. Zinc deficiency
as well as zinc excess result in severe disturbances in immune cell numbers and activities …

Zn is an essential trace element for all organisms. In human subjects body growth and
development is strictly dependent on Zn. The nervous, reproductive and immune systems …

Zinc is present in presynaptic nerve terminals throughout the mammalian central nervous
system and likely serves as an endogenous signaling substance. However, excessive …

For more than 50 years, it has been known that zinc deficiency compromises immune
function. During this time, knowledge about the biochemistry of zinc has continued to grow …

Zinc is essential for cell proliferation and differentiation, especially for the regulation of DNA
synthesis and mitosis. On the molecular level, it is a structural constituent of a great number …

Nearly sixty years ago Fredrich Timm developed a histochemical technique that revealed a
rich reserve of free zinc in distinct regions of the brain. Subsequent electron microscopy …

Zinc is an important trace element in biology. An important pool of zinc in the brain is the one
present in synaptic vesicles in a subgroup of glutamatergic neurons. In this form it can be …

▪ Abstract Zinc is an essential catalytic or structural element of many proteins, and a
signaling messenger that is released by neural activity at many central excitatory synapses …

Zn deficiency can have marked effects on virtually all components of the immune system.
That these effects can be functionally significant is demonstrated by the increased …