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The increasing environmental and occupational exposure of populations to cadmium creates the need for biological indicators of cadmium exposure and toxicity. The advantages and disadvantages of monitoring blood cadmium, urinary, fecal, hair, and tissue cadmium, serum creatinine, β2-microglobulin, a 1-antitrypsin and other proteins, and urinary amino acids, enzymes, total proteins, glucose,β1-microglobulin, retinol- binding protein, lysozyme, and metallothionein are discussed. It is concluded that urinary cadmium, metallothionein and β2-microglubulin may be used together to assess cadmium exposure and toxicity.
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Shaikh, Z.A., Smith, L.M. (1986). Biological indicators of cadmium exposure and toxicity. In: Mislin, H., Ravera, O. (eds) Cadmium in the Environment. Experientia Supplementum, vol 50. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7238-6_16
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