Effects of ethanol on 45Ca2+ uptake in synaptosomes and in PC12 cells.

Fig. 1. Effects of pretreatment with Zn or Cd on Cd-induced alterations of serum levels of CHE, GPT and albumin. Rats received the following treatment 24 hr prior to the Cd challenge (1.5 mg/kg body wt, SC): A and B, a single i.p. injection of saline or Zn (8mg/kg body wt); C and D, a single S.C. injection of saline or Cd (0.3 mg/kg body wt). For comparison two groups of rats pretreated with Zn were injected with saline instead of Cd (A, B) and one group of rats was given Cd pretreatment only (C, D). The control rats were injected with saline twice at 24 hr interval. Data are expressed as means 2 SD of 5 samples in each group. *, ** and *** indicate the significant differences from the control at P < 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001, respectively.