Induction of metallothionein-like cadmium-binding protein in the testis by oral cadmium administration in rats

Industrial Health

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 96-103

  Ohta, Hisayoshi ^a   Nakakita, Minoru ^a   Tanaka, Hideyuki ^a   Seki, Yukio ^a   Yoshikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Glutathione; Metallothionein (MT); Metallothionein like cadmium binding protein (MT like Cd BP); Oral administration; Testicular cadmium toxicity

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CADMIUM BINDING PROTEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CADMIUM POISONING; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT; TESTIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031016558     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.35.96     Document Type: Article

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