Exam 13: Essential Trace and Ultratrace Minerals

Match each mineral with the symptoms of its deficiency. -copper

Zinc used intranasally has been shown to cause ____.

What genetic disorder causes copper toxicity?

Trace minerals are required by the body in amounts of less than 1 mg/day.

Zinc is found in foods complexed with amino acids in which family?

Which two minerals are readily oxidized within tissues?

At the cellular level,which mineral interacts with vitamin A by promoting growth and helping to synthesize retinol-binding protein?

When superoxide radicals accumulate,superoxide dismutase catalyzes the formation of hydrogen peroxide.What happens to the hydrogen peroxide?

Which trace mineral participates in the greatest number of enzyme systems?

Selenium deficiency is linked to which disease?

Which micromineral is necessary for iodine metabolism?

Match each mineral with a representative enzyme and the physiological roles for which that mineral is important. -iron

Lithium carbonate is one of the medications used to treat bipolar disorder.A condition that might develop in patients using this medication is ____.

Which nonmetal nutrient deficiency is associated with Keshan disease,characterized by cardiomyopathy?

Nutrient-drug interactions caused by drugs such as statins used to treat cardiovascular disease are most likely to result in ____.

Iron regulatory protein (IRE-BP)is activated (i.e.,to bind IREs)by iron.

Certain foods have been classified as containing goitrogens.List three of these foods and tell how they affect iodide uptake in the thyroid.

Nutrient-drug interactions caused by diuretics used to treat high blood pressure are most likely to result in ____.

Which factors inhibit the absorption of zinc and by what mechanisms do they act?

Peroxynitrite is synthesized by activated white blood cells from which radicals?