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Is cadmium released from metallothionein in rejected human kidneys?
C G Elinder1, M Nordberg, B Palm
1Department of Renal Medicine, Huddinge Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Biology of Metals
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Concentrations of metallothionein and metals, i.e. cadmium, copper and zinc, were determined in six rejected transplanted human kidneys and one kidney prepared for transplantation. Tissue samples separated by gel chromatography showed that almost all of cadmium in tissue was in the form of firmly bound cadmium-metallothionein.