Schomburg Lutz
Institute for Experimental Endocrinology, Charité Medical University Berlin, Suedring 10, CVK, D-13353 Berlin, Germany.
Nutrients. 2016 Dec 30;9(1):22. doi: 10.3390/nu9010022.
Next year (2017), the micronutrient Selenium (Se) is celebrating its birthday-i.e., 200 years after first being identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius. Despite its impressive age, research into the functions of this essential trace element is very alive and reaching out for new horizons. This special issue presents some recent fascinating, exciting, and promising developments in Se research in the form of eight original contributions and seven review articles. Collectively, aspects of Se supply, biochemical, physiological, and chemotherapeutic effects, and geobiological interactions are covered by leading scientists in the areas of nutritional, basic, and clinical research. It is obvious from the contributions that the bicentennial anniversary will celebrate a micronutrient still in its infancy with respect to being understood in terms of its biomedical importance.
明年（2017年），微量营养素硒（Se）将迎来它的诞辰——即自被瑞典化学家永斯·雅各布·贝采利乌斯首次发现后的200年。尽管它年岁已高，但对这种必需微量元素功能的研究依然活跃，并不断开拓新领域。本期特刊以八篇原创论文和七篇综述文章的形式展示了硒研究领域一些近期迷人、令人兴奋且充满前景的进展。营养、基础和临床研究领域的顶尖科学家共同探讨了硒的供应、生化、生理和化学治疗作用以及地球生物学相互作用等方面。从这些文章中可以明显看出，在其生物医学重要性被理解方面，这个有着200年历史的微量营养素仍处于起步阶段。
