“…Speciation analysis of MTs and MLPs by HPLC coupled to ICP-MS seems to be adequate for detecting metal-biomolecule complexes in cytosols from animal tissues [48,49,50,51,52,53]. The majority of such studies concern the speciation of Cd, Zn and Cu in kidney [54,55,56], liver [46,49,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64] and brain [65] of mammals (rat, rabbit, bovine, humans) or tissues of bream [66], carps [67], eels [68] and mussels [69,70,71]. MT isoforms have been separated by size SEC, anionic exchange-HPLC and reverse phase (RP)-HPLC chromatography.…”