Effect of non-toxic mercury, zinc or cadmium pretreatment on the capacity of human monocytes to undergo lipopolysaccharide-induced activation

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 797-806

  Koropatnick, J ^a,b   Zalups, R K ^c  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide; Cadmium; Human monocyte; Mercury; Metal; Metallothionein; Zinc

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC; ZINC CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE ACTIVATION; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MONOCYTE; MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RESPIRATORY BURST;

CADMIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN; MONOCYTES; RESPIRATORY BURST; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC;

EID: 0030902675     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0700975     Document Type: Article

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