The toxicity of chloride salts of physiological (zinc, manganese, nickel) and non-physiological (cadmium) bivalent metal ions was studied in normal or carcinogen-transformed mouse embryo fibroblast cells. The dose response curves for toxicity to both types of cells exhibited similar shapes. The transformed cells, however, were about twice as sensitive to zinc toxicity as normal cells. When normal and transformed cells were grown together and incubated for several hours with an appropriate concentration of zinc, the malignant cells were selectively killed. Cadmium was much more toxic than the three other metal ions in both types of cells. Its toxic effect was reversed by simultaneous addition of zinc at nontoxic concentrations.
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