Biliary excretion of cadmium

Environ Health Perspect. 1979 Feb:28:123-6. doi: 10.1289/ehp.7928123.

Abstract

Biliary excretion of cadmium was studied in two groups of five rats which were given repeated injections of 109Cd. The first group was given a total amount of 6 mg Cd/kg which was 6 times as much as the second group. The elimination of cadmium in bile, urine, and feces was measured 4 to 5 weeks after the last injection. The relative biliary excretion of cadmium was the same in both groupetion, which was 0.001% but, less than the total fecal elimination of cadmium, which averaged 0.034% during the same time.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bile / analysis
  • Bile / metabolism*
  • Body Burden
  • Cadmium / metabolism*
  • Cadmium / pharmacology
  • Cadmium / urine
  • Feces / analysis
  • Injections, Intraperitoneal
  • Kidney / metabolism
  • Liver / metabolism
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Cadmium