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Title: DIETARY BORON AS A POSSIBLE ESSENTIAL NUTRIENT FOR HUMANS

Author
item Hunt, Curtiss

Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/4/1996
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Boron is known to be essential for most higher plants; also, several naturally-occurring, well-defined, biological boron oxy compounds have been identified. Usual adult human dietary boron consumption in the U.S. is in the range of 1-2 mg/d. Dietary boron apparently is well absorbed and the dominant boron species in physiological systems forms easily reversible complexes with several biologically important polyhydroxy compounds. Findings from numerous studies indicate that animals or humans fed boron-low diets (