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http://dx.doi.org/10.5487/TR.2010.26.2.131

Time-dependent Changes of Cadmium and Metallothionein after Short-term Exposure to Cadmium in Rats  

Cho, Mi-Ran (National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service)
Kang, Hwan-Goo (National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service)
Jeong, Sang-Hee (Hoseo University)
Cho, Myung-Haing (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
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Toxicological Research / v.26, no.2, 2010 , pp. 131-136 More about this Journal
Abstract
The time-dependent changes in cadmium (Cd) concentration were studied in Female Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats during and after Cd exposure via drinking water (10 and 50 ppm) for 30 days. The cadmium concentration in muscle, liver, kidney, blood plasma, and urine, and the metallothionein concentration in blood plasma were determined every 10 days during exposure and every 7 days after exposure for 3 weeks. The muscle Cd concentration did not change during, and neither after, exposure. The liver Cd concentration increased from 1.4 to 3.3 (at 10 ppm) and from 6.1 to 10.1 folds (at 50 ppm) during exposure and remained higher than those of controls in both groups even during post-exposure period. The kidney Cd concentrations were 2.3 to 5.1 (at 10 ppm) and 4.9-14.0 folds (at 50 ppm) higher than those of controls during exposure and also remained elevated during the post-exposure period. Plasma Cd concentrations were not significantly different from those of controls in both groups. Urine Cd concentrations were more than 2 folds (at 10 ppm) and 6.5 to 12.6 folds (at 50 ppm) higher than those of controls but rapidly decreased over the 7 days of withdrawal. Blood plasma metallothionein concentrations were more than 2.4 folds (at 10 ppm) and 3.1 to 7.4 folds (at 50 ppm), and they remained elevated till 7 days (10 ppm) and 14 days (at 50 ppm) after exposure. Our data support that Cd in urine could be a useful biomarker during Cd exposure period and metallothionein in blood plasma could be as a supportive biological marker for during and post Cd exposure.
Keywords
Cadmium; Biomarker; Short-term exposure; Metallothionein; Rat;
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