Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "Cadmium"

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    • Associations between cadmium exposure and neurocognitive test scores in a cross-sectional study of US adults 

      Ciesielski, Timothy; Bellinger, David C.; Schwartz, Joel David; Hauser, Russ B.; Wright, Robert O. (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Low-level environmental cadmium exposure and neurotoxicity has not been well studied in adults. Our goal was to evaluate associations between neurocognitive exam scores and a biomarker of cumulative cadmium ...

    • Evaluation of cystatin C as an early biomarker of cadmium nephrotoxicity in the rat 

      Prozialeck, Walter C.; VanDreel, Aaron; Ackerman, Christopher D.; Stock, Ian; Papaeliou, Alexander; Yasmine, Christian; Wilson, Kristen; Lamar, Peter C.; Sears, Victoria L.; Gasiorowski, Joshua Z.; DiNovo, Karyn M.; Vaidya, Vishal S.; Edwards, Joshua R. (Springer Netherlands, 2015)
      Cadmium (Cd) is a nephrotoxic environmental pollutant that causes insidious injury to the proximal tubule that results in severe polyuria and proteinuria. Cystatin C is a low molecular weight protein that is being evaluated ...