Metallothionein gene expression in peripheral lymphocytes from cadmium-exposed workers

Cell Stress and Chaperones

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 97-104

  Lu, Jian ^a,b   Jin, Taiyi ^a,b   Nordberg, Gunnar F ^b   Nordberg, Monica ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; COPPER; METALLOTHIONEIN; N ACETYL BETA GLUCOSAMINIDASE; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ARTICLE; DETOXIFICATION; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; ADULT; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADMIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CHINA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 0034988187     PISSN: 13558145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1379/1466-1268(2001)006<0097:MGEIPL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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