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DURING an investigation of the relative availability to man of strontium in bread and cow's milk1, three normal subjects ingested approximately 500 mµc of strontium-85 daily for 4 weeks. Bulked samples of plasma from blood taken thrice weekly showed a lower specific activity (85Sr/Sr) than urine for the same period. These results are shown in Table 1 as mean values for the first three subjects. Two further normal subjects followed a similar regimen, but less-frequent and larger samples of blood were taken. This allowed the specific activity to be determined on each blood sample for comparison with the specific activity of urine over a contemporary 2-h period. It will be seen that these results were substantially the same as those in the earlier case; and a similar finding was obtained in another subject given a single oral dose of strontium-87m.
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Carr, T. E. F., Harrison, G. E., Loutit, J. F., and Sutton, Alice, Nature, 194, 200 (1962).
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CARR, T., HARRISON, G., LOUTIT, J. et al. Binding of Strontium in Blood. Nature 195, 913 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195913a0
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