| Zinc deficiency (8) |  |
and sugar and starch synthesis. Apple one of the world's most popular fruits tends to be highly susceptible to zinc deficiency.
Although the apple trees showed no zinc deficiency symptoms and the leaf zinc nutrition was at a low level continuing zinc sprays on these trees was required to increase fruit quality the researchers said.
and zinc deficiencies because their plant-based diets are not a sufficiently rich source of these essential elements the biologists write.
While this study and previous work linking zinc deficiency to inflammation might suggest that supplementation could help very sick ICU patients it's still too early to make that leap.
Usually if there is zinc deficiency we would expect to see other nutrient deficiencies too. Zinc deficiency affects about 2 billion people worldwide including an estimated 40 percent of the elderly in the United states--who are also among the most likely Americans to end up in an ICU.
The research is published in the journal Cell Reports. Knoell's lab previously showed that zinc-deficient mice developed overwhelming inflammation in response to sepsis compared to mice on a normal diet.
When researchers allowed this protein to function unchecked in mice with zinc deficiency the animals developed excessive inflammation in response to sepsis--confirmation that IKKB was zinc's target to turn off the inflammatory pathway.
His lab is continuing to study the NF-Î B pathway inflammation and zinc deficiency in other disease processes.
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