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Title: Cellular transport and homeostasis of essential and nonessential metals.

Authors: Martinez-Finley, Ebany J; Chakraborty, Sudipta; Fretham, Stephanie J B; Aschner, Michael

Published In Metallomics, (2012 Jul)

Abstract: Metals can have a number of detrimental or beneficial effects in the cell, but first they must get in. Organisms have evolved transport mechanisms to get metals that are required, or essential into the cell. Nonessential metals often enter the cell through use of the machinery provided for essential metals. Much work has been done to advance our understanding of how these metals are transported across plasma and organelle membranes. This review provides an overview of essential and nonessential metal transport and homeostatic processes.

PubMed ID: 22337135 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Animals; Biological Transport; Cells/metabolism*; Homeostasis*; Humans; Metals/metabolism*; Metals/toxicity

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