ch. 1. The fundamentals of mineral nutrition -- ch. 2. The chemistry of chelation -- ch. 3. The history of nutritional chelates -- ch. 4. The requirements for a nutritionally functional chelate -- ch. 5. The development of analytical methods to prove amino acid chelation -- ch. 6. Absorption of amino acid chelates from the alimentary canal -- ch. 7. The pathways for absorption of an amino acid chelate -- ch. 8. The absorption of amino acid chelates by active transport -- ch. 9. The absorption of amino acid chelates by facilitated diffusion -- ch. 10. The fate of amino acid chelates in the mucosal cell -- ch. 11. The uptake of amino acid chelates into and out of the plasma -- ch. 12. Tissue metabolism of amino acid chelates -- ch. 13. Some metabolic responses of the body to amino acid chelates -- ch. 14. Toxicity of amino acid chelates -- ch. 15. The absorption and metabolism of amino acid chelates.