“…Many antioxidants have been attempted to be used in the intervention of Cd (II) toxicity, for instance, asmelatonin (Karbownik et al, 2001), quercetin (Hu et al, 2001), hydroxytyrosol (Casalino et al, 2002), coenzyme Q10 (Eybl et al, 2002), beta-carotene (El-Demerdash et al, 2004), curcumin (Eybl et al, 2004), vitamin E (Nemmiche et al, 2007) and diphenyl diselenide (Borges et al, 2008). Our group has demonstrated that endomorphin 1, the endogenous μ-opioid receptor agonists (Zadina et al, 1997), can block the toxicity of Cd and protect mice liver from oxidative damage (Gong et al, 2008).…”