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Modulation of the Adverse Health Effects of Environmental Cadmium Exposure by Zinc and Its Transporters
2024-05-07
Abstract excerpt
Zinc (Zn) is the second most abundant metal in the human body, and is essential for the function of 10% of all proteins. As metals cannot be synthesized or degraded, they must be assimilated from diet by specialized transport proteins, which unfortunately also provide an entry route for the toxic metal pollutant cadmium (Cd). The intestinal absorption of Zn depends on the composition of food that is consumed, firs...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 01473fda-4024-52be-b1b0-e25fd480170f
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202405.0302.v1