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Title: Action of DTPA on hepatic plutonium. III. Evidence for a direct chelation mechanism for DTPA-induced excretion of monomeric plutonium into rat bile. [/sup 239/Pu]

Journal Article · · Radiat. Res.; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3575119· OSTI ID:5673887

Trisodium calcium diethylenetriaminepenta(2-/sup 14/C)acetic acid ((/sup 14/C)DTPA, 0.25 nmole/kg, 0.210 mCi/mmole) was administered via the jugular vein to three rats whose bile ducts and urinary bladders were cannulated. Bile and urine were collected for 24 h after injection, and tissues and excreta were then analyzed for /sup 14/C content. (/sup 14/C)DTPA was identified in the bile samples by cochromatography with unlabeled DTPA on an anion-exchange column system. Data from this experiment demonstrated the existence of a minor excretion pathway for DTPA into rat bile, accounting for 0.12% of the injected dose by 24 h after administration. Bile was collected for 24 h following the administration of unlabeled Na/sub 3/(CaDTPA) (0.25 mmole/kg, iv) to a rat which had received /sup 239/Pu(IV)-citrate (5.7 ..mu..Ci/kg, iv) 24 h prior to DTPA. Bile samples containing Pu were analyzed using anion-exchange column chromatography. Eighty to ninety percent of the Pu present in bile chromatographed as a single peak in the position of the Pu-DTPA complex. Cochromatograhy of the 0- to 6-h bile sample with a /sup 239/Pu-(/sup 14/C)DTPA complex revealed that the Pu appearing in bile following DTPA treatment comigrated with the /sup 239/Pu-(/sup 14/C)DTPA complex. These data provide strong evidence that, in the rat, DTPA acts to remove hepatic deposits of monomeric Pu by formation of the Pu-DTPA complex followed by excretion of the complex into bile.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL
OSTI ID:
5673887
Journal Information:
Radiat. Res.; (United States), Vol. 80:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English