TABLE 1.
Inclusion | Exclusion | |
Participants | Healthy | Existing disease |
Adults (≥18 y) | Children (<18 y) | |
Female and/or male participants | Pregnant | |
Interventions | Isolation of blood cell type from zinc supplemented/depleted subjects | No intervention |
Commercial cell line or isolation of blood cell type and treatment/depletion of zinc in vitro | ||
Comparisons | Baseline | |
Placebo | ||
Outcomes | Expression of metallothionein | |
Expression of zinc transporter(s) | ||
Study design | No restriction |