Abstract
Intravenous injection of 109Cd-labeled CdCl2 (1 mg/kg) to control rats and rats that had been injected with CdCl2 (0.25 mg/kg) 24 hr earlier showed that there was a decrease in the biliary excretion of 109Cd in the latter group. The 24 hr pretreatment with CdCl2 resulted in induced synthesis of metallothionein in rat liver and kidney. The binding of cadmium to liver tissue was increased and the renal accumulation of cadmium was unaltered on cadmium pretreatment. Rat liver metallothionein was isolated from rats injected repeatedly with CdCl2. Intravenous injection of cadmium-bound metallothionein gave a different distribution of cadmium in the tissues and biological fluids as compared to injection of CdCl2. A major percentage of cadmium was deposited in the kidney with urinary excretion after injection of rat cadmium-metallothionein to control rats. The biliary excretion of cadmium after cadmium-metallothionein injection was minimal. About 90% of cadmium in the kidney cortex and urine could be recovered as cadmium-thionein in sephadex gel filtration, 3 hr after cadmium-thionein injection.
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