OTHER TOPICS IN THIS CHAPTER
- Overview of Minerals
- Chromium Deficiency
- Chromium Toxicity
- Copper Deficiency
- Copper Toxicity
- Wilson Disease
- Fluorine Deficiency
- Fluorine Toxicity
- Iodine Deficiency
- Iodine Toxicity
- Iron Deficiency
- Iron Toxicity
- Manganese Deficiency
- Manganese Toxicity
- Molybdenum Deficiency
- Molybdenum Toxicity
- Selenium Deficiency
- Selenium Toxicity
- Zinc Deficiency
- Zinc Toxicity
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Molybdenum (Mo) is a component of coenzymes necessary for the activity of xanthine oxidase, sulfite oxidase, and aldehyde oxidase.
A case of molybdenum toxicity may have occurred in 1961; it caused goutlike symptoms and abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidneys.
(See also Overview of Mineral Deficiency and Toxicity.)
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