Problem issues of mineral metabolism among residents of the Arctic Territories

DOI: 10.22138/2500-0918-2019-16-2-96-102

УДК 577.118 (571)

A.L. Gorbachev

North-Eastern State University, Magadan, Russian Federation

Abstract. Objective: to give a biogeochemical characterization of the northern regions and to justify the need for medical and environmental studies of the bioelemental status of Arctic populations of migrants and aboriginal people. Methods: review of the literature on biogeochemical studies of the northern territories for the period 1980-2018. Results. Given the climatic characteristics of areas of the North, including the geochemical environment. It is shown that the elemental status of the inhabitants of the North was be analyzed mainly in the inhabitants of the circumpolar regions. Due to objective difficulties, the Arctic regions remain practically unexplored. Emphasis is placed on man-made pollution of the biosphere of the northern regions with heavy metals, and above all with mercury, which has a neurotoxic effect. By the example of mercury and selenium, antagonistic relations between the chemical elements in a living organism are shown, resulting in the formation of secondary microelementoses. It was suggested that in order to develop the Arctic territories of Russia, it is necessary to conduct geochemical zoning of the modern Arctic regions, and the identification of the “predisposition” of certain territories to biogeochemical endemys.

Keywords: North, microelements, disadaptation, endemia

Received 19.04.2019.

For citation:
Gorbachev A.L. Problem issues of mineral metabolism among residents of the Arctic territories. Vestn. Ural. Med. Akad. Nauki. = Journal of Ural Medical Academic Science. 2019, Vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 96-102. DOI: 10.22138/2500-0918-2019-16-2-96-102 (In Russ)

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Author
Anatolij L. Gorbachev
North – Eastern State University
Dr. Sci. (Biological), Professor, Leading Researcher
Portovaya str. 13 Magadan 685000 Russian Federation
gor000@mail.ru

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