Cadmium's disguise dupes the estrogen receptor

Stephen Safe

doi:10.1038/nm0803-1000

Cadmium's disguise dupes the estrogen receptor

Stephen Safe

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Abstract

Cadmium is a toxic environmental pollutant that has worrisome estrogenic effects in cell culture. New data from rats show that cadmium can act as an estrogen mimic in the whole animal, inducing conditions ranging from uterine hyperplasia to early onset of puberty.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1000-1001
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Medicine
Volume	9
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0803-1000
State	Published - Aug 1 2003

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