Cadmium accumulation and metallothionein expression in brain of mice at different stages of development

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 127-133

  Choudhuri, Supratim ^a,b   Liu, Wen Li ^a   Berman, Nancy E J ^a   Klaassen, Curtis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DOW CORNING CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cadmium; Development; Metallothionein

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EYE; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029942808     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(95)03444-7     Document Type: Article

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