Nephrotoxic Metal Mixtures and Preadolescent Kidney Function

• Main Authors: Yuri Levin-Schwartz (Author), Maria D. Politis (Author), Chris Gennings (Author), Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz (Author), Daniel Flores (Author), Chitra Amarasiriwardena (Author), Ivan Pantic (Author), Mari Cruz Tolentino (Author), Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez (Author), Hector Lamadrid-Figueroa (Author), Martha M. Tellez-Rojo (Author), Andrea A. Baccarelli (Author), Robert O. Wright (Author), Alison P. Sanders (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Exposure to metals including lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and arsenic (As), may impair kidney function as individual toxicants or in mixtures. However, no single medium is ideal to study multiple metals simultaneously. We hypothesized that multi-media biomarkers (MMBs), integrated indices combining info...