Cadmium,zinc, copper and metallothionein levels in the kidney and liver of humans from central Poland |
| |
Authors: | Ewa M. Bem Bronisław W. Kaszper Czesław Orłowski Jerzy K. Piotrowski Gabriela Wójcik Ewa Żołnowska |
| |
Affiliation: | (1) Department of Toxicological Chemistry, Institute of Environmental Research and Bioanalysis, Medical University, Muszyskiego 1, 90-151 Lodz, Poland |
| |
Abstract: | Cd, Zn, Cu, and metallothionein (MT) levels have been determined in the renal cortex and liver of 70 persons who died in Lodz and its surroundings in the years 1985–1989. The mean concentrations were: 44.9±28.6 µg Cd/g, 52.0±16.7 µg Zn/g, 2.4±1.0 µg Cu/g, 0.79±0.40 µmol Hg/g, and 3.5±1.8 µg Cd/g, 66.7±30.5 µg Zn/g, 4.9±2.1 µg Cu/g, 0.50±0.38 µmol Hg/g wet tissue in renal cortex and liver, respectively, with mean age 54.0±13.8. Smokers showed 2.4 times higher levels of Cd in the renal cortex than non-smokers. The mean body burden of Cd was 33.4±17.3 mg. Smoking increases it twofold from 22.0 mg in non-smokers to 41.8 mg in smokers.This work was supported by the grant CPBR 11.12(C-56/86) from the Institute of Rural Medicine, Lublin, Poland.Deceased. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|