Orville A Levander
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Combs Jr G, Midthune D, Patterson K, Canfield W, Hill A, Levander O, et al.
Am J Clin Nutr
. 2009 May;
89(6):1808-14.
PMID: 19403637
Background: Selenium, a potential cancer prevention agent currently being tested against prostate cancer in the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), plays an integral role in thyroid metabolism....
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Smith A, Botero S, Levander O
J Nutr
. 2008 Apr;
138(5):849-55.
PMID: 18424590
Deficiency in several trace elements, including copper and selenium, is associated with increased levels of oxidative stress. Copper deficiency also has been shown to impair immune function. Previous work by...
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Gomez R, Pacienza N, Schattner M, Habarta A, Levander O, Sterin-Borda L
Biol Trace Elem Res
. 2007 Sep;
117(1-3):127-38.
PMID: 17873398
With the aim to study if selenium (Se) deficiency affects the basal frequency and cardiac response to isoproterenol (ISO), mice were fed a Se-deficient diet (Se-) or the same diet...
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Beck M, Shi Q, Morris V, Levander O
Free Radic Biol Med
. 2004 Dec;
38(1):112-6.
PMID: 15589379
Several oxidative stressors (dietary selenium deficiency, dietary vitamin E deficiency coupled with fish oil feeding, genetic reduction of glutathione peroxidase activity) allow a normally benign coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3/0) to damage...
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Beck M, Handy J, Levander O
Trends Microbiol
. 2004 Sep;
12(9):417-23.
PMID: 15337163
The emergence of new infectious diseases and old diseases with new pathogenic properties is a burgeoning worldwide problem. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are...
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Beck M, Levander O, Handy J
J Nutr
. 2003 May;
133(5 Suppl 1):1463S-7S.
PMID: 12730444
The discovery that the juvenile cardiomyopathy known as Keshan disease likely has a dual etiology that involves both a nutritional deficiency of the essential trace mineral selenium (Se) as well...
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Beck M, Williams-Toone D, Levander O
Free Radic Biol Med
. 2003 May;
34(10):1263-70.
PMID: 12726914
The severity of the heart damage caused by a coxsackievirus infection in mice is determined by several factors, including the genotype of the infecting virus as well as the genetic...
8.
Gomez R, Levander O, Sterin-Borda L
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol
. 2003 Jan;
284(2):H442-8.
PMID: 12529255
Atria from mice fed a selenium-deficient (Se(-)) diet have a diminished beta-adrenoceptor-inotropic cardiac response to isoproterenol or norepinephrine compared with atria from mice fed the same diet supplemented with 0.2...
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South P, Levander O, Smith A
Biol Trace Elem Res
. 2002 Jul;
88(1):79-85.
PMID: 12117267
Excess iron (Fe) intake has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease in humans, presumably the result of increased oxidative stress. Previous work by us has shown that...
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Gomez R, Solana M, Levander O
J Parasitol
. 2002 Jul;
88(3):541-7.
PMID: 12099423
Weanling C3H/HeN mice were fed either a torula yeast-based diet deficient in selenium (Se) or the same diet supplemented with 0.2 ppm Se as sodium selenite. After 4 wk of...