Publishing House Eurobit Timisoara, 2010. - 290 pThe publication of Tome X of the Proceedings of the 10th Symposium „Metal Elements in Environment, Medicine and Biology (M.E.E.M.B.) proves the contribution of participants to a large thematic area concerning metallomics and represents a continuity by the integrative and interrelational character of the topics from basic investigations to applicative research.
The series of Symposia „Metal Elements in Environment, Medicine and Biology has as starting point the activities of the «Working Group for Metal Research in Biological Systems» founded in 1979. Approaching problems of inter- and multidisciplinarity the members of this group started to publish their papers in 1980.
At the beginning, the M.E.E.M.B. Symposia Series were organized under the auspices of Roumanian Academy (with the approval of Acad. Nicolae Cajal, 1993) and of the Biochemical Commission of the Roumanian Academy (with the support of Acad Mihai Serban). The in extenso papers of the symposia were published in Tomes: I (1994); II (1996); III (1998); IV (2000); V ( 2002); VI (2004); VII (2006); VIII (2008) – in Timisoara; Tome IX (2009) - in Cluj-Napoca and Tome X (2010) - in Timisoara.
From 2008 the series of symposia takes place under the auspices of Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Roumanian Academy and of Timisoara Branch of the Roumanian Academy with the perspective to extent the internal and foreign collaborations and the thematic area. Starting with 2009 the meeting is organized annually, alternatively in Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara.
In the context of contemporary development focused on environmental, nutritional, pathobiochemical, pharmacological and public health problems, preoccupations in the domain of metallomics present a special interest. We hope that the readers of this volume will begin to feel the challenge of these research areas and thereby be encouraged to explore them further, and even participate in future research.
