Lack of correlation between the inducibility of metallothionein mRNA and metallothionein protein in cadmium-exposed rodents

Toxicology

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 99-109

  Misra, R Rita ^a   Crance, Kimberly A ^a   Bare, Robert M ^a   Waalkes, Michael P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICOKINETICS;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CARCINOGENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031588764     PISSN: 0300483X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-483X(96)03557-3     Document Type: Article

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