The liver in itai-itai disease (chronic cadmium poisoning): Pathological features and metallothionein expression

Modern Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1228-1234

  Baba, Hayato ^a   Tsuneyama, Koichi ^a   Yazaki, Megumi ^a   Nagata, Kohei ^a   Minamisaka, Takashi ^a   Tsuda, Tatsuhiro ^a   Nomoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Hayashi, Shinichi ^a   Miwa, Shigeharu ^a   Nakajima, Takahiko ^a   Nakanishi, Yuko ^a   Aoshima, Keiko ^b   Imura, Johji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b Hagino Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

cadmium (Cd); hepatotoxicity; itai itai disease; metallothionein

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOACCUMULATION; CADMIUM POISONING; CELL INFILTRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FEMALE; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTE; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM POISONING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY, CHRONIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84883873223     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.2013.62     Document Type: Article

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