Publishing House Eurobit Timisoara (2000). – 362 p.The series of International Symposia Metal Elements in Environment, Medicine and Biology (M.E.E.M.B.) arrived at its 4th edition and continues to arise the interest of the roumanian and international scientific community because it joins the desiderations of fundamental and applicative research.
Further on there are reiterated some aspects mentioned in the prefaces of the previous editions of the Symposium.
A first aspect is represented by the inter- and multidisciplinary horizon of the moderne conceptions referring to the mechanisms of metals translocation which stay at the base of the so-called trophic chain soil-plants-animals-humans. In this context the problems have in view biochemical and pathobiochemical, physiological and pathophysiological as well as morphological and morphopathological aspects.
A second aspect is related also to the specific inter- and multidisciplinary character of the theme but in the acceptance of the applicative sphere with practical problems involving the habitual environment of humans (i.e. soil, water, air), macroand micronutrients, chemotherapeutical products (for human and veterinary use), pathological processes, materials utilized in prothesis and implantology, different residues with metal content discharged in the environment etc.
