Associations of urinary cadmium with age and urinary proteins: Further evidence of physiological variations unrelated to metal accumulation and toxicity

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1047-1053

  Chaumont, Agnes ^a   Voisin, Catherine ^a   Deumer, Gladys ^a   Haufroid, Vincent ^a   Annesi Maesano, Isabella ^b,c   Roels, Harry ^a   Thijs, Lutgarde ^d   Staessen, Jan ^d,e   Bernard, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CADMIUM; CREATININE; DIOXIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; ALB PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLYCOPROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIURESIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY CORTEX; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; AGING; BELGIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; URINE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BELGIUM; CADMIUM; CHILD; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SMOKING; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84883288019     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306607     Document Type: Article

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