The cadmium toxicity hypothesis of aging: a possible explanation for the zinc deficiency hypothesis of aging.

Abstract excerpt

Although cadmium and zinc have similar chemical properties, they affect living organisms diversely: while zinc is an essential element for growth, development and functioning of all living cells, cadmium is a highly toxic material. Cadmium has an extremely long biological half-life and may be con...

Topics

• Aging
• Animals
• Cadmium
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Clinical Trials as Topic
• Double-Blind Method
• Half-Life
• Humans
• Lipid Peroxidation
• Macular Degeneration
• Mutation
• Neoplasms, Experimental
• Zinc