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AMYLOIDOSIS has been produced in experimental animals by injecting a variety of substances, most of them proteinaceous1. We have found that a simple chemical, cadmium, given to rabbits as cadmium chloride in relatively small doses over a long period of time will produce a severe form of amyloidosis.
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BAUM, J., WORTHEN, H. Induction of Amyloidosis by Cadmium. Nature 213, 1040 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2131040a0
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