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Biochemistry of the Lanthanides (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Biochemistry of the Lanthanides (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
Series: Biochemistry of the Elements, 8
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By a happy coincidence, the completion of this text coincided with
the 200th anniversary of the discovery of gadolinite, the mineral
with which the lanthanide story begins. For a group of elements
which occur in only trace amounts biologically, and which have no
known metabolic role, the lanthanides have spawned a surprisingly
large biochemicalliterature. Se rious interest in the biochemical
properties ofthese elements can be traced to concerns about the
safety of radioactive lanthanides toward the end of World War 11.
As recent events at Chernobyl indicate, this concern re mains
topical. However, the literature on lanthanide biochemistry pre
dates the atomic era, beginning with sporadic, medically motivated
studies in the latter part of the 19th century. Much of the present
biochemical activity involving the lanthanides centers around their
ability to provide 2 important information on the interactions of
Ca + with macromolecules and with eukafyotic cells. With the
increasing industrial use of the lan thanides, their toxicological
properties will need to be examined more closely. Rare earth
pneumonoconiosis has already been identified as a disease produced
by industrial exposure to lanthanides. Several of the biochemical
properties of the lanthanides are of relevance to modern medicine.
Already cerium-based ointments are used to treat burn wounds, while
paramagnetic lanthanides find application in nuclear magnetic res
onance imaging. This book is an attempt to collate and to present
in reasonable detail existing knowledge of lanthanide biochemistry
before the literature be comes unmanageable."
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