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In protecting the body against the noxious effects of dietary cadmium ions, cadmium is bound to metallothionein in the proximal intestine, and subsequently excreted into the lumen with desquamation of the epithelium. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which cadmium in the form of intestinal cadmium-thionein is absorbed from the intestinal lumen and to appraise the toxicity of cadmium-thionein on the intestinal mucosa. With open-ended duodenal perfusion, equivalent amounts of cadmium administered as CdCl2 or cadmium-thionein entered the mucosa, but significantly less cadmium from the perfusate of cadmium-thionein passed into the body. Exposure of the mucosa to CdCl2 for 1 hr led to minor abnormalities in the form of broadening of villi with pseudostratification of epithelium, and swelling of mitochondria, whereas cadmium-thionein produced extensive necrosis of absorptive cells. The results suggest that cadmium-thionein may play a paradoxical role, providing protection against the cadmium ion in the intracellular milieu, but promoting cadmium toxicity when it is present in sufficient amounts in the lumen of the intestine.
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