Table 2.
Metals detected by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in six human kidneys.
| ID | Site | AMG | LA-ICP-MS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hg | Cd | Pb | Fe | Ni | Ag | Cr | Al | Bi | Au | |||
| K16 | Cortex | Positive | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | − |
| Medulla | Positive | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | |
| K32 | Cortex | Positive | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − |
| Medulla | Positive | + | − | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | |
| K19 | Cortex | Positive | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | − |
| Medulla | Positive | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | − | − | |
| K69 | Cortex | Positive | + | + | + | + | − | + | − | − | − | − |
| K51 | Cortex | Negative | + | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | − |
| K29 | Cortex | Negative | + | + | + | + | − | − | − | − | − | − |
AMG autometallography, ID identity number, + detected, − not detected, K identity number (see Table 1).