Sunday, November 9, 2008
 

Arrival & registration

20:00 Welcome dinner (Lonquimay Room)
 

Monday, November 10, 2008

7:00-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9:30

Plenary session. State of the art on copper (Araucanía Room)
Magdalena Araya. Copper effects in human nutrition
Leo Klomp. Copper homeostasis disorders; a tale of dogs, mice and men .

9:30-10:30

Plenary session. State of the art on iron (Araucanía Room)
Elizabeth Theil. Frontiers in iron nutrition and antioxidant metabolism. Caroline C. Philpott. A cytosolic iron chaperone that delivers iron to ferritin.

10:30-11:00
Coffee break

11:00-12:00

Plenary session. State of the art on zinc (Araucanía Room)
Michael Hambidge. Human zinc deficiency: new insights into zinc homeostasis provide a quantitative basis for prevention and treatment of a new public health challenge.
Juan Pablo Liuzzi. Zinc research: current status and future perspectives.
12:00-13:00

Plenary session. State of the art on Selenium (Araucanía Room)
Roger Sunde. Molecular selenium nutrition – from discovery to molecular biology biomarkers for selenium status and requirements.
Vadim N Gladyshev. Selenoproteins and their roles in redox biology.

13:00-14:00
Lunch (Restaurant)
15:00-17:00

Symposium 1. Advances in Proteomics. Analytical, structural and functional aspects (Araucanía Room)
D Behne (chair). Trace elements as binding partners of proteins.
Dirk Schaumloeffel. Detection of trace element-containing proteins.
Brian Gibney. Modern methods of analysis of Zn proteins

Symposium 2. Transition metals and oxidative stress (Lonquimay Room)
Hernán Speisky (chair). Cu(I)-glutathione complex: a new biological source of superoxide radicals?

Marco Tulio Nuñez. An iron-calcium connection in nmda receptor signaling and hippocampal synaptic plasticity.
Xingen Lei. Hidden roles of Se-GPX1 and Cu,Zn-SOD

Symposium 3. Advances in the use of stable isotopes for applications in humans (Coñaripe Room)
Nancy Krebs (chair). Zinc homeostasis: taking current knowledge to the field
Leland V. Miller. Zinc absorption: modeling the impact of dietary factors
Lena Davidsson. Iron absorption in children: implications for global challenges.

Sue Fairweather-Tait. Copper homeostasis: how stable isotope applications inform understanding

17:00 -17:30
Coffee break
17:30-19:00

Posters session with cheese & beer (Llaima Room)
P001. The development of a food iron bioavailability index (FIBI). Marcia J. Cooper, Kevin A. Cockell and Mary R. L'Abbé

P002. Dietary intake modelling supports a low level of iron supplementation for pregnant Canadian women. Kevin A Cockell, Hélène Lowell, Doris C Miller and George H Beaton

P003. Iron and zinc dialyzability in an infant diet including bread with different iron sources or absorption promoters. Maria Julieta Binaghi, Nestor Pellegrino, Patricia Ronayne and Mirta Valencia.

P004. Mineral dialyzability from expanded products fortified with bovine hemoglobin. Silvina R. Drago, M. Julia Birocco, Rolando J. González and Mirta E. Valencia

P005. Effect of lupinus angustifolius chelating peptides on mineral dialyzability from fortified foods. Silvina R Drago, Manuel Alaiz and Javier Vioque

P006. Effect of globin, erythrocyte stroma, cow, chicken and fish meat on heme-iron bioavailability. Valerie Weinborn, Manuel Olivares, Miguel Arredondo, Eva Hertrampf and Fernando Pizarro.

P007. Effect of purified animal and vegetal proteins on heme-iron bioavailability. Valerie Weinborn, Manuel Olivares, Miguel Arredondo, Eva Hertrampf and Fernando Pizarro.

P008. Iron supplementation in previously anemic bolivian children normalized hematologic parameters, but not immunologic parameters. Edgar A. Sejas, Patrick Kolsteren, Tom Hoeree, Daniel B Roberfroi.

P009. Nutritional status of zinc in children with down sindrome . Adriana de Souza Lima, Bárbara Rita Cardoso and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino.

P010. Assessment of glutathione peroxidase activity in Alzheimer's disease patients . Bárbara Rita Cardoso, Wilson Jacob Filho, Omar Jaluul, Thomas Prates Ong and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino

P011. Errors in estimating zinc requirements in populations. Farzad Amirabdollahian and R. Ash

P012. Phytate intake and molar ratio of phytate: zinc in the diet of the UK population. Farzad Amirabdollahian and R. Ash

P013. Zinc supplementation has divergent effects on plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in humans: a meta-analysis. Meika J Foster, Peter Petocz, Samir Samman

P014. Ratios of IGF-1, IGF binding protein-3 and zinc in cancer and benign human prostate hiperplasia. Adam Daragó, Andrzej Sapota, Jan Taczalski and Anna Kilanowicz

P015. Effect of red wine extract supplementation on copper, polyphenols and total antioxidant status in elderly people. Grzegorz Mielcarz, Aleksander Barinow-Wojewodzki

P016. Potencial indicators to detect early effects of copper exposure in humans. Miguel Arredondo, Silvia Flores, Héctor Núñez, Valeria Candia, Fernando Pizarro, Magdalena Araya.

P017. Copper status and their relation to thyroid hormone profile in male and female goitrous patients. Ghulam Abbas Kandhro, Tasneem Gul Kazi, Sirajuddin, Hassan Imran Afridi, Naveed Kazi, Mohammad Balal Arain, Raja Adil Sarfraz, Abdul Qadir Shah, Nasreen Syed and Jameel Ahmed Baig

P018. Chronic exposure to high copper doses in non-human primates: a model of copper loading. Héctor Núñez, Miguel Arredondo, Marco Méndez, Fernando Pizarro, Manuel Olivares, Ricardo Uauy and Magdalena Araya.

P019- effects of Brazilian nuts intake on the selenium blood concentrations and on erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase activity in morbid obese women. Cristiane Cominetti, Maritsa Carla de Bortoli, Thomas Prates Ong, Fernando Salvador Moreno, Arthur Belarmino Garrido Jr. and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino

P020. Mercury level and selenium status in women living in Cubatão, São Paulo , Brazil . Maritsa C. de Bortoli, Cristiane Cominetti, Luciana A. Farias, Déborah I.T. Fávaro and Silvia M.F. Cozzolino

P021. Nutritional status of selenium of patients with thyroid disorders of Fortaleza/CE–Brazil. Carla Soraya Costa Maia; Liliane Viana Pires; Luciana Sigueta Nishimura, Alexandre Coelho Pimentel; Rafael Barofaldi Bueno; Renan Magalhães Montenegro Junior; Virgínia de Oliveira Fernandes and Sïlvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino.

P022. Assessment of nutritional status on the selenium of patients with Turner syndrome in different stages of development. Liliane Viana Pires,

José Alexandre Coelho Pimentel, Rafael Barofaldi Bueno, Luciana Sigueta Nishimura, Carla Soraya Costa Maia, Adriana Siviero-Miachon, Tatiana Fabbri T, Angela Maria Spinola-Castro and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino.

P023. Relationships between respiratory diseases, nutrition items and trace elements in ingested food. Maria do Carmo Freitas and Adriano M.G. Pacheco.

P024. Total diet study: Fe, Cr, Zn and Se content estimation of São Paulo State ( Brazil ) diet by instrumental neutron activation. Roseane P. Avegliano , Vera A. Maihara 2 and Fábio F. Silva

P025. Determination of iron, seleniun and zinc in milk formulas commercialized in São Paulo city- Brazil . Paola Santos, Vera A. Maihara, Mitiko Saiki, Maria Esther Ceccon, Jane Oba, Cecília Yu, Roseane P. Avegliano

P026. Micro distribution of biologically important metals in primary invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. Michael Farquharson, Alia Al-Ebraheem, Russell Leek and Adrian Harris.

P027. Trace elements in dietary supplements. Tore Syversen, Marte Aurstad Aspnes, Kristin Gellein and Lars Evje.

P028. Lead and arsenic levels in reproductive age women with different nutritional status living in Santiago , Chile . Yareni Gutierrez, L. Muñoz , Gabriela Salazar, Miguel N Llanos and Ana M Ronco

P029. Trace elements in hemochromatosis. Bjørn J. Bolann and Rune J. Ulvik

P030. Iron, zinc, and calcium content of commercially-produced cereal-based complementary foods from Africa and Mongolia fail to meet the estimated needs for 9-11 month breast-fed infants. Karl B Bailey, Rebecca Lander, Tserennadmid Enkhargal and Rosalind S Gibson

P031. The correlation of arsenic levels in drinking water with the biological samples of skin disorders. Tasneem Gul Kaz, Muhammad Balal Arain, Ghulam Abbas Kandhro, Muhammad Khan Jamali, Hassam Imran Afridi, Nusrat Jalbani, Raja Adil Sarfraz, Jameel Ahmed Baig, Abdul Qadir Shah.

P032. Study on dietary iron intake in Chinese adult man and interaction between iron and lead in rats . Junquan Gao

P033. Dietary exposure assessments of heavy metals and trace elements in China . Junquan Gao and Xiaowei Li


P034. Factorial design and CCD used as optimization procedures for direct determination of iron in canine serum samples by GF AAS with in-situ matrix removal. Carolina Carvalho de Souza, Henrique José Ferraz Fabrino, Waldomiro Borges Neto, Aldair junior Woyamos Pinto, José Bento Borba da Silva and Wagner Luiz Tafuri

P035. Copper deficiency in calves may increase susceptibility to infectious keratoconjunctivitis. Leonardo Minatel, Gabriela Cintia Postma, Susana Cristina Underwood, María Elena Dallorso and Julio César Carfagnini.

036. Copper and iron bioavailability in anemic rats fed fructans-containing yacon ( Smallanthus Sonchifolius ) flour-supplemented diets. Alexandre Rodrigues Lobo, Maria Lúcia Cocato, Primavera Borelli, Amanda Crisma, Karina Nakajima and Célia Colli.

P037. Variations in metallothionien, copper and zinc concentrations in the livers and kidneys of dogs, cats and horses . Carmen I Fuentealba, M George Cherian, JC Lau

P038. Liver biopsy in cattle. A safe procedure to evaluate copper accumulation in the liver. Marco García-Vaquero, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, José Luis Benedito, Marta López-Alonso, Betiana Gutiérrez and Marta Miranda

P039. Dietary fluoride effect on liver weight and body weight of New Zealand white rabbits . Artur Canella Avelar and Walter Motta Ferreira.

P040. Effect of plant species, harvest time and soil type on mineral content of organic forage crops. Jakob Sehested, Søren Krogh Jensen and Karen Søegaard

P041. Cadmium levels in edibles fish species of gulf and Pacific coasts of Mexico . Marisela Méndez-Armenta, M Isabel Castro-González, Sergio Montes, Camilo Ríos and Sara Montaño

P042. Phosphorus, potassium, calcium, protein and N-3 PUFA content in marine fishes as an option in patients with renal diseases´ diet. María Isabel Castro-González, Daniela Miranda Becerra and Sara Montaño Benavides.

P043. HO1, BAX and BCL-2 gene expression in cells incubated at different iron concentrations. Marcela Fuentes and Miguel Arredondo

P044. An iron-calcium connection in NMDA receptor signaling and hippocampal synaptic plasticity. Pablo Muñoz-Carvajal, Alexis Humeres, Cecilia Hidalgo and Marco T. Núñez


P045. Participation of aldosterone in hypotension secondary to iron deficiency anemia. Aki Konomi and Katsuhiko Yokoi.

P046. Iron and zinc dialyzability in quinoa crops: preliminary study. Binaghi Maria Julieta, Dyner Luis, Zuleta Angela, Bertero Hector and Pallaro Anabel.

P047. Calcium increases iron uptake by Caco 2 cell line. Diego Gaitán, Manuel Olivares, Miguel Arredondo and Fernando Pizarro.

P048. Impact of iron-deficiency on 210 Pb-absorption along the murine intestine. Klaus Schümann, Noel Solomons, Monica Orozco, Bernd Elsenhans.

049. Effects of zinc supplementation on gene expression of zinc transporters and metallothionein in hemodialysis populations. Amanda Amorim, Rubens Santana, Maraysa Carvalho, Rafael Brandão, Hélida Andrade, José Adail Castro, Adalberto Silva, José Tiburcio Neto, Carmem Barros, Erasmo Oliveira, Waldemar Bartchewsky, Marcelo Ribeiro, Semiramis Monte, Nadir Nogueira

P050. In-silico identification and characterization of efflux heavy metals resistance proteins in Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans . Mauricio Latorre, Pablo Moreno, Andrés Aravena, Verónica Cambiazo, Alejandro Maass and Mauricio González

P051. CIND, a copper-induced nitroreductase involved in protein denitrosylation in Lactococcus Lactis . Frédéric Mourlane and Marc Solioz.

P052. Role of selenoproteins in brain function and development. Ulrich Schweizer.

P053. Cancer chemoprotection through selenium: a nutriproteomics approach to identify selenium biomarkers. Andrea Mahn, Héctor Toledo, Manuel Ruz and Ricardo Vega

P054. Effect of inorganic and organic selenium supplementation on growth rate, blood metabolites, antioxidant status and immune response in lambs. Anil K. Garg, Neeraj Kumar, Vinod K. Chaturvedi and Vijai P. Varshney

P055. Effect of selenium supplementation on milk yield in grazing dairy cows. Javier Neumann, Alejandro Ceballos, Helga Böhmwald and Fernando Wittwer

P056. The health promoting quality of food obtained from crops foliary enriched with selenium. Ivana S. Djujic

P057. Selenium determination by neutron activation analysis (NAA) applied to poultry production and health. María Dallorso, Sara Resnizky, Rodrigo Invernizzi and Ernesto Benavídez

P058. Congruency and divergency of calcium in the biological matrice of the human hair with the other osteotrophic and non-osteotrophic members of the multielement profile. Juraj Prejac, Asja Celebic, Jasmina Stipetic-Ovcaricek, Renata Poljak-Guberina, Petra Nola-Fuchs, Anatoly Viktorovich Skalny, Margarita Germadievna Skalnaya, BerislavMomcilovic.

20:00
Dinner & social activity (Restaurant)
 
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
7:00-8:30
Breakfast

8:30-9:00

Plenary session. Leone Memorial Lectureship (Araucanía Room)
Carmen Donangelo. Zinc utilization in women during reproduction: evidence of physiologic adaptation.

9:00-10:30

Symposium 4. Selenoprotein P metabolism and functions in animals and humans (Araucanía Room)
John Arthur (chair). Selenoprotein P: variations in response to selenium supplementation Ray Burk. Selenoprotein P and "selenium status"
Lutz Schomburg. Selenoprotein P and disease in humans and animals.

9:00–10:30

Oral abstracts presentation session 1. Copper, zinc, and iron basic aspects (Lonquimay Room).
Mauricio González (chair)

9:00–9:15
O01. The zinc transporter 3 (ZnT3) sorting and transport activity are regulated by covalent ZnT3-oligomers. Gloria Salazar and Victor Faundez.
9:15-9:30
O02. Dietary iron affects proteins involved in iron metabolism in weanling pigs. Stephanie L Hansen and Jerry W Spears.
9:30-9:45
O03. Effect of zinc on hepatic copper and iron concentrations in experimentally induced copper toxicity in rats. Carmen Fuentealba, Susan Haywood, Kent G. Hecker and Jim Trafford
9:45-10:00
O04. Live imaging of metal-ion transport in oocytes expressing the human divalent metal-ion transporter DMT1: substrate profile and selectivity of DMT1. Anthony C Illing, Ali Shawki, Christopher L Cunningham, and Bryan Mackenzie
10:00-10:15
O05. Dual-localization of ZnT2 to mitochondria and exocytotic vesicles redistributes zinc pools in mammary cells. Young Ah Seo, Veronica Lopez and Shannon L Kelleher
10:15-10:30
O06. Is copper chaperone for cu/zn superoxide dismutase a potential biomarker of mild copper supplementation? Miriam Suazo, Talía del Pozo, Marco Méndez, Mauricio González and Magdalena Araya .
9:00–10:30

Oral abstracts presentation session 2. Health hazards (Coñaripe Room)
Mary L'Abbé (chair)

9:00–9:15
O07 . Long term effects of cadmium on forearm bone density in a chinese population. Xiao Chen, Guoying Zhu, Taiyi Jin, Agneta Åkesson , Ingvar A. Bergdahl , Lijian Lei, Shifang Weng and Yihuai Liang
9:15-9:30
O08. Glutathione modulation influences methyl mercury induced toxicity in albino rats. Varsha Singh, Deepmala Joshi, Sadhana Shrivastava, Sangeeta Shukla and Mohammed Abdullah
9:30-9:45
O09. Effects of complex I inhibition on mitochondrial iron homeostasis, in an experimental model of parkinson's disease. Natalia Mena, Julio Salazar, Enrique Armijo, H. Stephen, Etienne Hirsch and Marco Tulio Núñez.
9:45-10:00
O10. Competition between oligomeric silicic acid and transferrin for aluminium binding and implications for aluminium toxicity. Sylvaine FA Bruggraber, Ravin Jugdaohsingh, William Cook and Jonathan J. Powell
10:00-10:15
O11. Comparison of prenatal biomarkers of low-level methyl mercury exposure. Janja Tratnik, Irena Rupnik and Milena Horvat
10:15-10:30
O12. Rapid screening of toxic elements via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Richard Jacobs, Janet McDonald and Peter Palmer.
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-13:00

Symposium 5. Trace elements and the central nervous system (Araucanía Room)
Joe Prohaska (chair). Impact of copper deficiency on brain energy metabolism
Raymond Burk. Selenoprotein P and brain function
John Beard. Iron deficiency and neural functioning

Symposium 6. New approaches to define TE biomarkers (Lonquimay Room)
Magdalena Araya (co-chair)
Harry McArdle (co-chair). Identification of biomarkers for micronutrient status – a comparison of genomics and proteomics approaches.
Ioav Z Cabantchik. Misdistribution of iron: causes, pathological implications and attempts of correction.
Ruan Elliott. What is the true potential of transcriptomic methods for biomarker discovery in trace element research?
John Beattie. Zinc biomarker discovery: light at the end of the tunnel?

Symposium 7. Interventions with trace elements in susceptible populations (Coñaripe Room)
Manuel Ruz (chair)
Rosalind Gibson. Interventions for combating micronutrient deficiencies in Africa : problems, progress, and future solutions.
Emorn Wasantwisut. Trace elements interventions in Asia : knowledge vs challenges
Daniel Lopez de Romaña. Recent trace elements interventions in Latin America
Noel Solomons. Interventions with trace elements (TES) in susceptible populations: when does safety trump efficacy?

13:00-14:00
Lunch (Restaurant)
15:00
Social activity. Trip to “Termas del Huife”
20:00
Dinner (Restaurant)
   
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:00-8:30
Breakfast

8:30-9:00

Plenary session. Underwood Lecture (Araucanía Room)

Janet King. Why are indicators of zinc status so elusive?

9:00 – 10:30

Oral abstracts presentation session 3. Trace elements in animal metabolism (Araucanía Room)

Fernando Wittver (chair)
9:00–9:15
O13. Effect of selenium supplementation on somatic cell counts in grazing dairy cattle. Alejandro Ceballos, Juan Kruze, Daniel Uribe, Javier Sanchez, Ian Dohoo, Herman Barkema, Jeff Wichtel, Javier Neumann and Fernando Wittwer.
9:15-9:30
O14. Persistence of blood changes associated with alteration of the dietary electrolyte balance following feed withdrawal, transportation and lairage in market weight swine. Lily N. Edwards, Terry E. Engle, Temple Grandina and David B. Anderson.
9:30-9:45
O15. Effects of copper on ruminal fermentation and biohydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids in vitro . Jennifer S. Schutz and Terry E. Engle.
9:45-10:00
O16. Dietary silicon: a beneficial mediator of immunoregulating and stress proteins in mammals? Sarah Ratcliffe, Ravin Jugdaohsingh and Jonathan J Powell
10:00-10:15
O17. Effects of long-term copper deficiency on gene expression profiles of copper transporters and chaperones in the liver of cattle. Robert S. Fry, Melissa S. Ashwell, Stephanie L. Hansen, Terry E. Engle, Hyungchul Han and Jerry W. Spears
10:15-10:30
O18. Effect of dietary antagonists on copper metabolism of sheep. Alexander M. Mackenzie, Carolyn M. Atkin, Nia Griffith, Claire L. Williams, Simon G. Edwards and Robert G. Wilkinson

9:00 – 0:30

Oral abstracts presentation session 4. Iodine and selenium (Lonquimay Room)
Sean Stain (chair)

9:00–9:15
O19. The effect of high iodine intake on thyroid hormones and selenium status in older people. Christine Thomson, Jenny Campbell, Jody Miller and Sheila Skeaff
9:15-9:30
O20. Probiotics and selenium metabolism: does it matter whether the bacteria are dead or alive? Woravimol Krittaphol, Philip Wescombe, Arlene McDowell, John R. Tagg, Christine D. Thomson and J. Paul Fawcett
9:30-9:45
O21. Iodine status and cognitive function of women of childbearing age and their five year-old children in Sidama, Southern Ethiopia . Alemtsehay Bogale, Cherinet Abuye, Kassu Gurmu, Yewelsew Abebe, K Michael Hambidge and Barbara J Stoecker
9:45-10:00
O22 . Selenium in milk – selenium speciation and health effects. Tien Hoac, Peter Olsson, Vasileios Pagmantidis, Gitte Ravn-Haren, Jan Stagsted, Susanne Bügel, Gunilla Önning, Jacob H. Nielsen, Lars O. Dragsted and Björn Åkesson
10:00-10:15
O23. Selenium and human cancer. From epidemiological data to molecular biology study. Wojciech Wasowicz, Ewa Jablonska, Edyta Reszka and Jolanta Gromadzinska
10:15-10:30
O24. Selenoprotein W MRNa expression analysis in human colonic mucosa using affymetrix HGU133 plus 2.0 microarrays and real-time PCR. Jeannette Molnár, Orsolya Galamb, Ferenc Sipos, Sándor Spisák, Kinga Tóth, Norbert Solymosi, Annamária Németh, Zsolt Tulassay, Béla Molnár

9:00 – 10:30

Oral abstracts presentation session 5. Iron and zinc metabolism and interventions (Coñaripe Room)

Shannon Kelleher (chair)
9:00–9:15
O25. One-day zinc kinetics, a versatile tool for analysis of human zinc metabolism and its application. Katsuhiko Yokoi, Harold H. Sandstead, Norman G. Egger, Nancy W. Alcock, V.M. Sadagopa Ramanujam, Hari H. Dayal and James G. Penland
9:15-9:30
O26. Hepcidin and its role in regulating intestinal iron transport. Paul Sharp, Bomee Chung, Timothy Chaston, Joanne Marks, Edward Debnam and Surjit Srai
9:30-9:45
O27. Intakes and impact of dietary factors affecting iron availability in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (MRC NSHD) (1946 British birth cohort) between 1982 and 1999. Anna P. Rickard, Mark D. Chatfield, Jonathan J. Powell and Alison M. Stephen
9:45-10:00
O28. Short-term inhibitory effect of calcium on iron absorption persists after an extended course of calcium supplementation in young women with limited iron stores. Karima Benkhedda, Mary R. L'Abbé and Kevin A. Cockell
10:00-10:15
O29. Maternal dietary zinc supplementation prevents cognitive impairment in adult offspring of mice exposed to infection (LPS) in early pregnancy. Allan M Rofe, Nancy Tran, Jenny N.T. Fung, Brooke L Summers, Joanne S Chua and Peter Coyle
10:15-10:30
O30. Zinc and iron absorption and nutritional status is reduced after gastric bypass in morbidly obese patients. Manuel Ruz , Fernando Carrasco, Pamela Rojas, Attila Csendes, Karin Papapietro, Jorge Inostroza, Annabella Rebolledo, Karen Basfifer, Fernando Pizarro, Manuel Olivares, Nancy Krebs, Jamie Westcott, Michael Hambidge.
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-13:00

Simposium 8. Trace elements in neurodegeneration (Araucanía Room)
Tulio Nuñez (chair)
George Perry. Evidence of increased copper and iron but not zinc in Alzheimer's disease: energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) elemental microanalysis.
Carlos Opazo. Untuning of protein-metal interactions in Alzheimer disease.
Etienne Hirsch. Iron in Parkinson's disease.
Moussa Youdim. Multifunctional iron chelators neuroprotective and neurorestorative drugs for alzheimer's disease.

Symposium 9. Trace elements and vascular disease (Lonquimay Room)
Y. James Kang (chair). Copper metabolic disorder in heart failure
John Beattie. Zinc in vascular health and disease
Markus Brielmeier. The morphological and functional integrity of cardiomyocytes critically depends on the selenoprotein mitochondrial thioredoxin reductase.
Huiqi Xie. Copper and zinc metabolic changes and manipulation in hypertension.

Symposium 10. Animal nutrition current problems (Coñaripe Room)
Xin Gen Lei (chair)
Dennis Miller. Prebiotics and iron bioavailability: Using the piglet as a model to study effects and mechanisms.
Jerry Spears. Trace mineral transporters: implications for animal nutrition.
Zongyong Jiang. Potential of supplemental selenium in improving meat quality of food animals.

13:00-14:00
Lunch (Restaurant)
15:00-17:00

Symposium 11. Trace elements interactions in health (Araucanía Room).
Bo Lönnerdal (chair). Iron-Zinc Interactions: effect of maternal Fe and Zn supplementation on offspring Fe and Zn homeostasis.
James Collins. The Menkes copper ATPase (ATP7A) is novel iron responsive gene in the mammalian intestine.
Richard Hurrell. Contradictory findings on the influence of vitamin A on iron bioavailability in human subjects.
Ralf Biebinger. Interactions of vitamin a and iodine deficiencies: effects on the pituitary TSHB-gene and the thyroid axis.

Symposium 12.
Increasing awareness on selected trace elements (Lonquimay Room)
Michael Garrick (chair). Increasing awareness of selected trace elements.
Jerry Roth. Role of NF-?B and parkin in regulating DMT1 expression and manganese toxicity.
Laura Garrick. Accumulation of trace metals as an assay for transport (by DMT1)
Brian Mackenzie. Substrate profile and selectivity of the human divalent metal-ion transporter DMT1.

Symposium 13. Trace element transport and its regulation (Coñaripe Room)
Jim Camakaris (chair). The pivotal role of the Menkes copper ATPase in copper transport and regulation of its function
José Arguello. Ferrying Cu across the membrane: molecular mechanism of Cu-ATPases.
Miguel Arredondo. New insights in heme and none-heme iron transport
Robert Cousins. Zinc transport and signaling

17:00-7:30
Coffee break
17:30-19:00

Posters session with cheese & beer (Llaima Room)

P059. Gender dependent homology of the human hair and whole blood multielement profile. Berislav Momcilovic, Jadran Morovic, Juraj Prejac, Sandra Morovic, Vesna Sitar-Srebocan, Anatoly Viktorovich Skalny, Margarita Germadievna Skalnaya.

P060. Depression dependent homology of the human hair and whole blood multielement profile. Berislav Momcilovic, Jadran Morovic, Juraj Prejac, Sandra Morovic, Ninoslav Mimica, Irena Bezic, Tanja Radionov, Ankica Svirc, Anatoly Viktorovich Skalny, Margarita Germadievna Skalnaya.

P061. Mucin does not improve heme iron bioavailability. Gustavo Cediel, Manuel Olivares, Fernando Pizarro.

P062. Anemia in pre-school day care centers in Sao Paulo : evaluation after 2 years of intervention in control of iron deficiency with the fortification of wheat and corn flour. Edna Machado , Cleber Costa, Celia Colli, William Latorre and Sophia Szarfarc.

P063. Correlates of fasting circulating 25-hepcidin levels and 25-hepcidin responses to oral iron supplementation in healthy, Guatemalan men. Noel W. Solomons, Klaus Schümann, María-Eugenia Romero-Abal, Guenter Weiss, Dorine Swinkels.

P064. Zinc nutritional status of university students in São Paulo , Brazil . Vanessa Cristiane Miyazato and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino.

P065. Efficacy of an iron-based intervention on zinc status of young adult New Zealand women with mild iron deficiency. Nicolas Prosser, Anne-Louise Heath, Sheila Williams and Rosalind S Gibson

P066. Effect of zinc supplementation on the antioxidant status of physically active adolescents. Josely C Koury, Karla JF de Oliveira, Astrgildo V Oliveira-Junior and Carmen M Donangelo

P067. Metabolic alterations of zinc related to aging. Anna Cecília Queiroz de Medeiros , Maria das Graças Almeida, Vanessa Teixeira de Lima Oliveira, Débora Azevedo Nascimento, Kênio Costa Lima, Lorena dos Santos Tinoco and Lucia de Fátima Campos Pedrosa.

P068. Effect of zinc supplementation on hematological indices in marathon runners. Josely Koury; Carla Bogéa; Aderval Luna and Carmen Donangelo.

P069. Zinc suplementation in infants with Down syndrome. Guillermo Venegas, Paulina Escobar and Aldo Rodriguez

P070. Effect of copper on iron bioavailability. Manuel Olivares, Fernando Pizarro, Alejandra Martin and Manuel Ruz.

P071. Changes in serum Fe, Cu, Zn, LDH and liver amino transferases after a unique oral copper dose in healthy women chronically supplemented with copper. Jorge Botero-López, Fernando Pizarro and Magdalena Araya.

P072. Assessment of selenium nutritional status of Riverine children from Rondônia State , Western Amazon. Ariana Vieira Rocha, Rafael Barofaldi Bueno, Cristiane Cominetti, Maritsa Carla Bortoli, Liliane Viana Pires Milena Barcza Pinto, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino.

P073. Effect of Brazilian nuts supplementation on the levels of erythrocyte selenium and glutathione peroxidase in hemodialysed patients. MB Stockler-Pinto; NE Farage, GT Boaventura, D Mafra, SMF Cozzolino.

P074. Comparative analysis of determining the concentration of selenium in diets of patients with hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism in the state of Sao Paulo – Brazil . Luciana Sigueta Nishimura, Liliane Viana Pires, Carla Soraya Costa Maia, José Alexandre Coelho Pimentel, Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino

P075. Nutritional status of selenium on healthy adult subjects of the state of São Paulo – Brazil . Luciana Sigueta Nishimura, Carla Soraya Costa Maia, Liliane Viana Pires, José Alexandre Coelho Pimentel, Clara Satsuki Mori, Rafael Barofaldi Bueno and Silvia Maria Franciscato Cozzolino

P076. Age-related antioxidant defence weakening is altered by low selenium intakes. I Margaritis, I Hininger, A Botta, L Farout.

P077. Consumption of animal foods, restrained eating behaviour and biomarkers of nutritional status in young women. Flavia Fayet , Victoria Flood, Peter Petocz, Peter Stewart, Ian Caterson, Samir Samman

P078. Effect of cotherapy of chelating agents and antioxidants against aluminium induced nephrotoxicity. Sadhana Shrivastava, Abhilasha Sharma, Varsha Singh, Deepmala Joshi, Sangeeta Shukla and Mohammed Abdullah

P079. The effect of daily iodine supplementation on cognition in mildly iodine deficient school children: a randomised, controlled, double blind study. Rosie Gordon, Meredith Rose, Sheila Skeaff, Kirstie Morgan, Ted Ruffman and Andrew Gray

P080. Peculiarities of minerals in Iranian daily diets. AGGharib, M Gharib, SG Mohseni

P081. Tissue and blood levels of cadmiun and selected trace elements in women with uterine myomas and endometrial cancer. Marzenna Nasiadek, Tomasz Krawczyk, Jadwiga Szymanska and Andrzej Sapota

P082. Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients have elevated iron stores and lipoperoxidation index. Valeria Candia and Miguel Arredondo.

P083. Minor and trace elements in Brazilian coffee samples. Maria do Carmo Freitas and Ho Manh Dung.

P084. Redox balance, elemental levels and cardiovascular risk factors in Azorean patients with confirmed coronary artery disease. Rita Ferin, Patrícia Napoleão, Carla Gomes, Ana R Castro, Paula Lopes, Dinis Martins, M. Cristina Santos, José Baptista, Ana M. Viegas – Crespo, Teresa Pinheiro and M Leonor Pavão

P085. Assessment of trace element intakes in children with cerebral palsy. Ujang Tinggi, Niikee Schoendorfer, Peter Davies, Roslyn Boyd, Pieter Scheelings, Henry Olszowy

P086. Multivariate optimization procedure used to develop a method for antimony determination in human serum samples by GF AAS. Henrique José Ferraz Fabrino, Waldomiro Borges Neto, Alfredo de Miranda Goes andJosé Bento Borba da Silva

P087. Trace and minor elemental content of various calcium supplements: does the choice of calcium supplement induce risk of metal intoxication to renal insufficient patients? Raphael Jakubovic, Eric Da Silva and Ana Pejovic-Milic

P088. Effect of sodium selenite supplementation on blood activity of GPx in Chilean criollo horses kept in pasture. Mirela Noro, Ricardo Chihuailaf, Macarena Rioseco, Bruno Menarim and Fernando Wittwer

P089. Selenium metabolic balance in grazing Chilean purebred horses in southern Chile . Ricardo Chihuailaf, Mirela Noro and Fernando Wittwer

P090. Malonaldehyde and total glutathione plasma concentrations after a rodeo exercise in chilean purebreed horses with different selenium nutritional status. Juan S. Galecio, Ricardo Chihuailaf and Fernando Wittwer.

P091. Antagonistic effect of organic selenium against the toxicity of lead. Xiaowei Li and Junquan Gao

P092. Toxic trace elements-nutrients interaction: long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids n-3 and n-6 concentrations in the placenta of rats exposed to cadmium during pregnancy. Marcela Araya, Arnaldo Gatica, Ricardo Uauy and Ana M. Ronco.

P093. Managing mineral balance within beef-cattle systems. Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Richard F. Shore, Marta Miranda, José Luis Benedito and Marta López-Alonso

P094. Moderate iron overload in rats: interaction with fructans and/or phytate in the hepatic and bone metabolisms. Maria Lucia Cocato, Alexandre Rodrigues Lobo, Primavera Borelli, Anna Karenina Azevedo Martins, Lílian Rosa Marques de Sá, Célia Colli

P095. Effect of molybdenum and sulphur on copper status and mohair quality in Merghoze goat. Mohammad Mehdi Moeini, Ebrahim Nooriyan and Manochehr Souri.

P096. Effect of selenium and vitamin E supplementation during late pregnancy on serum IgG concentration in heifers and serum IgG concentration and passive immunity in their calves. Mohammad Mehdi Moeini, Elham Mikaeili, Hamed Karami and Amir Kiani.

P097. A statistical appraisal of the results of the blood microminerals metabolic profile test on Chilean dairy herds. Mirela Noro, Ricardo Chihuailaf, Marcela Cabrera, Helga Böhmwald and Fernando Wittwer

P098. HCP1 and FLVCR expression in response to heme and non-heme iron. Solange Le Blanc, Marco T. Nuñez and Miguel Arredondo.

P099. The oxidative stress generates a similar genetic response to iron deficit in enterobacterias. Guadalupe López-Rodríguez, Angélica Reyes-Jara, Patricia Águila and Mauricio González.

P100. Superoxide-dependent reduction of free Fe 3+ and release of Fe 2+ from ferritin by the physiologically-occurring Cu(I)[GSH] 2 complex. Francesca Burgos-Bravo, Margarita Aliaga, Edgar Pastene, Catalina Carrasco-Pozo and Hernán Speisky.

P101. The uptake and metabolism of soybean ferritin by intestinal cells. Brie K. Fuqua and Elizabeth C. Theil

P102. Iron and glucose overload modify mitofusin 1 and mitofusin 2 mRNA expression. Alejandra Espinoza, Amaya Oyarzún, Megan Rourk, Francisco Pérez, Miguel Arredondo.

P103. Double edge redox-implications for the interaction between endogenous thiols and copper ions: in vitro studies . Catalina Carrasco-Pozo, Margarita Aliaga, Claudio Olea-Azar and Hernán Speisky.

P104. Biogenesis of cytochrome c oxidase in A. Thaliana : two putative copper chaperones similar to yeast SCO1 and COX11. Talía del Pozo, Patricia Hanna, Verónica Cambiazo and Mauricio González.

P105. Cu(I)-glutathione complex: a potential source of superoxide radicals generation. Maritza Gómez, Catalina Carrasco-Pozo, Edgar Pastene and Hernán Speisky

P106. Formation of a Cu(II)-GSSG complex during the removal of superoxide anions generated by the Cu(I)-[GSH] 2 complex. Margarita Aliaga, Francesca Burgos, Maritza Gómez, Claudio Olea-Azar, Carolina Jullian and Hernán Speisky.

P107. Mechanism of selenium cytoprotection against cholesterol oxide-induced vascular damage in rats. Kaixun Huang, Hongmei Liu, Qingzhi Wu, Rong Tang and Huibi Xu.

P108. Thimerosal reduces the expression of MT-1 mRNA in the cerebellum microglia cell line, C8-B4. Takeshi Minami and Eriko Miyata.

P109. The role of mitochondrial ferritin in cellular iron metabolism. Enrique A. Armijo, Natalia Mena and Marco T. Núñez

P110. Application of the dual-isotope-tracer-ratio technique to measure zinc absorption in piglets - a pilot study. Dorthe Carlson, Nancy F Krebs, Sian Lei, Jamie E Westcott, Jakob Sehested, Hanne Damgaard Poulsen

P111. Quantifying trace and toxic metals in human bone with accelerator-based in vivo neutron activation analysis. Ana Pejovic-Milic, Aslam , Fiona E. McNeill and David R. Chettle

P112. A non-linear compartmental model for molybdenum. Augusto Giussani, Federico Tavola, Marie Claire Cantone, Vera Höllriegl and Uwe Oeh.

P113. A comparative study of hair elements and pancreas function. Tatjana D. Lalic and Ivana S Djujic

P114. Semen quality parameters in relation to serum zinc, copper and selenium in men. Alica Pizent, Jasna Jurasovic, Božo Colak

P115. A simpler analytical method for phytate. Donald Oberleas, Alemzewed Challa, Barbara Stoecker and Barbara F Harland.

P116. Content of trace elements, antioxidants and other nutrients in four Andean vegetable species of Bolivia . Felipe Chuquimia, J Antonio Alvarado, J Mauricio Peñarrieta, Björn Bergenståhl, Björn ?kesson

P117. The elementome matrix map for a complex contextual interactions in the human whole blood. Rastko Momcilovic, Juraj Prejac, Dalibor Veber, Nikola Ivicic, Jadranka Pongracic, Anica Benutic, Glenn Irvin Lykken, Berislav Momcilovic.

P118. The isotope mass number overlap in the multielement profile analysis – the Cheshchuya (fish skin) model. Rastko Momcilovic, Juraj Prejac , Glenn Irvin Lykken, Nikola Ivicic, Berislav Momcilovic.

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Thursday, November 13, 2008
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