Selenium and selenoproteins in viral infection with potential relevance to COVID-19

Selenium is a trace element essential to human health largely because of its incorporation into selenoproteins that have a wide range of protective functions. Selenium has an ongoing history of reducing the incidence and severity of various viral infections; for example, a German study found seleniu...

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Main Authors: Jinsong Zhang, Ramy Saad, Ethan Will Taylor, Margaret P. Rayman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Redox Biology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231720309204