Mechanisms of cadmium toxicity in terrestrial pulmonates: Programmed cell death and metallothionein overload

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 648-655

  Chabicovsky, Monika ^a   Klepal, Waltraud ^b   Dallinger, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Helix pomatia; Hepatopancreas; Metallothionein; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CELLS; DETOXIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY; TISSUE;

CELL PROLIFERATION; PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH;

TOXICITY;

CADMIUM; ISOPROTEIN; METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; MORTALITY; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; TOXICITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DETOXIFICATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HELIX POMATIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LETHAL DOSE; LIVER; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METAL BINDING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CADMIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HELIX (SNAILS); HEPATOPANCREAS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; HELIX POMATIA;

EID: 31244431544     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/02-617     Document Type: Article

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