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THE absorption and retention of dietary strontium can be reduced by supplementing the diet with an equimolar mixture of barium and sodium sulphates1,2, calcium phosphates3, or sodium alginate4,5. The possibility of remedial measures to protect a population exposed to a high concentration of strontium-90 in the diet makes these results particularly interesting. Promising results have been obtained from each of the dietary supplementations, and the purpose of the present investigation was to compare the effectiveness of the different treatments in rats of the same strain and age in similar conditions.
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KOSTIAL, K., MALJKOVIČ, T., KADIČ, M. et al. Reduction of the Absorption and Retention of Strontium in Rats. Nature 215, 182 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215182a0
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