Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium. Zinc stimulates production of a protein that binds cadmium thereby ...

Cadmium exposure is a known risk factor for prostate cancer, and a new University of Rochester study suggests that zinc may offer protection against cadmium. In an article published in the February ...

Zinc sulfide exists in two crystalline forms: a cubic form with the zincblende structure (the most common form in nature, occurring as the rather common mineral sphalerite) and a hexagonal form, which ...

The effects of cadmium, calcium, manganese, and zinc at low levels on the oxygen and phosphate uptake of bluegill liver mitochondria were investigated. Cadmium (3.3 × $10^{-3}$ μmoles/ml of reaction ...

The metal contents were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry in Picea abies, Vaccinum myrtillus, Maianthemum bifolium, Pleurozium schreberi and Hypogymnia physodes growing in three areas with ...

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