• DOI:10.1007/BF01783629
Corpus ID: 22882255

Evidence for arsenic essentiality

@article{Uthus1992EvidenceFA,
  title={Evidence for arsenic essentiality},
  author={E. Uthus},
  journal={Environmental Geochemistry and Health},
  year={1992},
  volume={14},
  pages={55-58}
}

• E. Uthus
• Published 1992
• Biology, Medicine
• Environmental Geochemistry and Health

Although numerous studies with rats, hamsters, minipigs, goats and chicks have indicated that arsenic is an essential nutrient, the physiological role of arsenic is open to conjecture. Recent studies have suggested that arsenic has a physiological role that affects the formation of various metabolites of methionine metabolism including taurine and the polyamines. The concentration of plasma taurine is decreased in arsenic-deprived rats and hamsters. The hepatic concentration of polyamines and… Expand

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