Publications
| significance of urinary cadmium concentration in a japanese population environmentally exposed to cadmium. | an epidemiological study was performed on 1,815 cadmium-exposed and 240 nonexposed inhabitants of the kakehashi river basin in ishikawa, japan. the significance of urinary cadmium concentration as an indicator of internal dose in a general environment polluted by cadmium was investigated. the mean urinary cadmium concentration (cd-u) increased in a dose-related manner when the subjects were classified according to the average cadmium concentration in their village rice and according to their per ... | 1992 | 1596102 |
| dose-response relationship between dietary cadmium intake and metallothioneinuria in a population from a cadmium-polluted area of japan. | an epidemiological study to examine the dose-response relationship for environmental cadmium exposure was performed in 1843 cadmium-exposed and 240 non-exposed inhabitants of the kakehashi river basin in ishikawa, japan. the average cadmium concentration in rice from each village was employed as an indicator of cadmium exposure and the individuals were grouped according to the length of residence in the polluted area. metallothioneinuria was used as an index of renal tubular dysfunction produced ... | 1991 | 2011852 |