The vascular endothelium as a target of cadmium toxicity

Life Sciences

Volumn 79, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 1493-1506

  Prozialeck, Walter C ^a   Edwards, Joshua R ^a   Woods, James M ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Atherosclerosis; Cadmium; Cancer; Carcinogenesis; Cardiomyopathy; Endothelium; Heart; Hypertension; Inflammation; Kidney; Liver; Lung; Testis; VE cadherin

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY BURDEN; CALCIUM BINDING; CAPILLARY LEAK SYNDROME; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DEATH; CELL DISRUPTION; CHEMICAL CARCINOGENESIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GAP JUNCTION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETHALITY; LIVER TOXICITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG INJURY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TESTIS INJURY; TOXICOKINETICS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALS; CADMIUM; CADMIUM POISONING; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33748053316     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2006.05.007     Document Type: Review

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