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Pulmonary and gastrointestinal exposure to cadmium oxide dust in a battery factory

Journal Article · · Environ. Health Perspect.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.7928219· OSTI ID:6683312
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The elimination of cadmium in feces was studied in a group of 15 male workers exposed to cadmium oxide dust in a nickel-cadmium battery factory. The elimination of cadmium in feces was on the average 619 and 268 microgram/day in seven smokers and eight nonsmokers, respectively. The cadmium concentrations in blood were significantly higher in smokers than in nonsmokers, both before and after one month of vacation. Among the smokers there was a significant decrease in the cadmium concentrations during the vacation period, but not among the nonsmokers. It was estimated that cadmium naturally occurring in food and cigarettes, cadmium excreted from the gastrointestinal tract, and cadmium transported from the lungs by mucocillary clearance to the gastrointestinal tract only could explain up to 100 microgram of the cadmium in the feces.
Research Organization:
Karolinska Inst., Stockholm, Sweden
OSTI ID:
6683312
Journal Information:
Environ. Health Perspect.; (United States), Journal Name: Environ. Health Perspect.; (United States) Vol. 28; ISSN EVHPA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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560306* -- Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology-- Man-- (-1987)
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
AEROSOLS
ANIMALS
BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BIOLOGICAL WASTES
BLOOD
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CADMIUM
CADMIUM COMPOUNDS
CADMIUM OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
COLLOIDS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DISPERSIONS
DUSTS
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELEMENTS
FECES
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
LUNGS
MALES
MAMMALS
MAN
MATERIALS
MEN
METAL-METAL OXIDE BATTERIES
METALS
NICKEL-CADMIUM BATTERIES
ORGANS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERSONNEL
PRIMATES
RESIDUES
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
SIDE EFFECTS
SMOKES
SOLS
TOBACCO SMOKES
VERTEBRATES
WASTES