Cadmium Toxicity

Liver and Cadmium Toxicity

Cadmium (Cd) is an important industrial and environmental toxicant with many industrial applications. Cd emissions to the atmospheric, aquatic, and terrestrial environment have increased during the last century. Since Cd is not degraded in the environment, the risk of human exposure is constantly increased due to Cd also enters to the food chain [1]. Humans are generally exposed to Cd by two ma...

Cadmium Toxicity and Treatment

Cadmium is a heavy metal of considerable toxicity with destructive impact on most organ systems. It is widely distributed in humans, the chief sources of contamination being cigarette smoke, welding, and contaminated food and beverages. Toxic impacts are discussed and appear to be proportional to body burden of cadmium. Detoxification of cadmium with EDTA and other chelators is possible and has...

Cadmium Toxicity in Glutathione Mutants

Perspectives on cadmium toxicity research.

Since there are a plethora of studies on cadmium toxicity and poisoning in laboratory animals and humans, we have limited this review to studies that are relevant to human health issues by focusing on carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, circulatory disease, nephrotoxicity and life expectancy. Cadmium exposure has been established to induce cancer in various tissues of laboratory animals. Contrary to...

Cadmium toxicity and treatment: An update

Cadmium poisoning has been reported from many parts of the world. It is one of the global health problems that affect many organs and in some cases it can cause deaths annually. Long-term exposure to cadmium through air, water, soil, and food leads to cancer and organ system toxicity such as skeletal, urinary, reproductive, cardiovascular, central and peripheral nervous, and respiratory systems...