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| Ribas,Paulo; Lopes,Ruberval A.; Sala,Miguel A.; Ribas,Lucia M.R.; de Mattos,Maria da Glória C.; Semprini,Marisa; Watanabe,Ii-Sei; Regalo,Simone C.H.. |
| Cadmium in the air, drinking water and food has the potential to affect the health of people, mainly those who live in highly industrialized regions. Cadmium affects placental functions, can cross the placental barrier and directly disturbs fetal development. It is also excreted into milk. The organism is particularly susceptible to cadmium exposure at perinatal period. The effect on rat maxillary molar junctional epithelium a continuous exposure to drinking water containing low level of cadmium during lactation was studied. Female rats received drinking water ad libitum containing 300 mg/l CdCl2 throughout the whole lactation. Control animals received a similar volume of water without cadmium. Lactent rats (21 day-old) were killed by lethal dose of... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Oral mucosae; Junctional epithelium; Cadmium; Lactation; Morphometry; Stereology. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022004000400003 |
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