Articles on Metabolism and Pathophysiology

İDRIS AKKUŞ, RAMAZAN ŞEKEROĞLU, ABDURRAHMAN ÜNER, MEHMET AKÖZ, EMIN KURT

1991, Vol 7, Issue 4, Page 547-551

Selenium (Sc) was discovered in 1817 by Swedish scientists Jöns Jacop Berzelius and J.G. It was discovered by Gahn. It is the most toxic of trace elements (1,2). The first selenium poisoning was noticed by Marko Polo during his trip to Asia in 1295, but at that time it was not known that this...