The monitoring of cadmium, zinc and copper in the kidneys and liver of humans deceased in the region of Cracow (Poland)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-236

  Piotrowski, Jerzy K ^a   OrŁowski, CzesŁaw ^a   Bem, Ewa M ^a   Bryś, Magdalena ^a   Baran, Erazm ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROTEINS; ZINC;

CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS; INHABITANTS; KIDNEYS; LIVER; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN; RENAL CORTEX;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CADMIUM; COPPER; ZINC;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CORTEX; LIVER; MALE; POLAND; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 0030560611     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00394451     Document Type: Article

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