Tissue accumulation of cadmium following oral administration to metallothionein-null mice

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 85-90

  Kimura, Tomoki ^a   Itoh, Norio ^a   Min, Kyong Son ^b   Fujita, Isami ^a   Muto, Norio ^a   Tanaka, Keiichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cd absorption; Cd distribution; Intestinal metallothionein; Metallothionein null mice

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; METALLOTHIONEIN; ZINC;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICOKINETICS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; GENE DELETION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; KIDNEY; LIVER; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ZINC;

EID: 0032414282     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4274(98)00129-5     Document Type: Article

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