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  Cadmium Toxicity: Oxidative Stress and Organ Dysfunction

  By S. Milton Prabu, Nazima B., Manoharan V.

  Abstract: Due to continued anthropogenic mobilization, cadmium accumulation in the environment causes various health problems because of its diverse toxic effects, extremely lingering biological half life (20–30 years), low rate of excretion from the body and storage predominantly in soft tissue primarily liver and kidney. Cadmium is known to have numerous noxious effects, including nephrotoxicity, hepatoxicity, osteoporosis, cardiovascular toxicity, lung toxicity, and reproductive toxicity. The biologically significant ionic form of cadmium, …

  Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Toxicology · Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2014 · pp. 14–31 Read article →