The objective of this work was to examine possible effects that the exposure to cadmium and selenium might have in Lepidium sativum. Nine hydroponic cultures were obtained, according to the three level factorial design that covered plants exposure to 0, 0.5, 2.0 mg L-1 of cadmium (as cadmium chloride) and selenium (as sodium selenite). Shoots growth was evaluated during two weeks after germinat...

The heavy metal cadmium (Cd(2+)) applied on tobacco roots in the form of cadmium chloride, induced significantly higher levels of DNA damage as measured by the cellular Comet assay than did treatment of isolated root nuclei, analyzed by use of the acellular Comet assay. DNA damage induced by Cd(2+) in roots of a transgenic catalase-deficient tobacco line (CAT1AS) was higher than in wild-type to...

Cadmium and lead are potential heavy metal environmental pollutants. Cadmium is used in metal coating, paints, enamels, plastics, stabilizers of PVC, nickel-cadmium batteries, solders, low melting alloys, production of semiconductor and photovoltaic devices (Peterson and Allowy, 1979). Lead comes from printing industry plastics plaster, paint and batteries (Haley, 1968). Most of the investigati...

The time course of cadmium-metallothionein synthesis was studied in non-parenchymal and parenchymal cells, isolated by a cell-separation technique from the livers of rats after the simultaneous injection of CdCl2 (0.05 mg of Cd/kg) and a 10-fold molar excess of 2,3-dimercaptopropanol. Under these conditions of dosing, in contrast with the injection of CdCl2 alone, both cell types accumulate sim...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Cd(2)Cl(2)(NCS)(2)(C(15)H(15)NO(2))(2)](n), contains the Schiff base 2-[(4-methyl-phenyl-imino)meth-yl]-6-methoxy-phenol (HL) ligand, one thio-cyanate and one chloride ligand coordinated to a cadmium centre. The cadmium centers are linked to each other via two thio-cyanate and two chloride bridges alternately, resulting in centrosymmetric zigzag chain...

The water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) may be used as a sensitive biological indicator for continuously monitoring trace quantities of toxic heavy metals in aquatic systems. A river water system polluted with cadmium was simulated while other factors of temperature, day-night cycle, water quality, and light intensity remained constant. When the water hyacinth is maintained in river water con...

Several nutrients are known to affect cadmium toxicity, but little is known about the effect of dietary nutrient levels on absorption and tissue retention of cadmium at low dietary levels, similar to those of man. Feeding gradedlevels of zinc in a casein-gelatin diet to young Japanese quail with 109Cd (as the chloride) and 0.062 ppm added cadmium decreased the cadmium concentrations in the prov...

Cadmium is a dangerous metal distributed widely in the environment. Members of our laboratory recently identified the ZIP8 transporter protein, encoded by the mouse Slc39a8 gene, to be responsible for genetic differences in response to cadmium damage of the testis. Stable retroviral infection of the ZIP8 cDNA in mouse fetal fibroblast cultures (rvZIP8 cells) leads to as much as a 10-fold increa...