Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised
Despite being disparaged for their malodorous and toxic demeanour, compounds of selenium, a bio-essential element, and tellurium, offer possibilities as therapeutic agents. Herein, their potential use as drugs, for example, as anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory agents, etc., will be surve...
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| description | Despite being disparaged for their malodorous and toxic demeanour, compounds of selenium, a bio-essential element, and tellurium, offer possibilities as therapeutic agents. Herein, their potential use as drugs, for example, as anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory agents, etc., will be surveyed along with a summary of the established biological functions of selenium. The natural biological functions of tellurium remain to be discovered. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-29822015-01-06T03:59:18Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/2982/ Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised Tiekink, E.R.T. QD Chemistry R Medicine Despite being disparaged for their malodorous and toxic demeanour, compounds of selenium, a bio-essential element, and tellurium, offer possibilities as therapeutic agents. Herein, their potential use as drugs, for example, as anti-viral, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory agents, etc., will be surveyed along with a summary of the established biological functions of selenium. The natural biological functions of tellurium remain to be discovered. Royal Society of Chemistry 2012-01-17 Article PeerReviewed Tiekink, E.R.T. (2012) Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised. Dalton Transactions, 41 (21). pp. 6390-6395. ISSN 1477-9226, DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT12225A <https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT12225A >. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2012/dt/c2dt12225a http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C2DT12225A |
| spellingShingle | QD Chemistry R Medicine Tiekink, E.R.T. Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title | Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title_full | Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title_fullStr | Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title_full_unstemmed | Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title_short | Therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds: opportunities yet unrealised |
| title_sort | therapeutic potential of selenium and tellurium compounds opportunities yet unrealised |
| topic | QD Chemistry R Medicine |
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