Distribution of Uranium in human lungs
| Autor: | Chang kyu Kim, Nagao Ikeda, Atsushi Yamakawa, Yasuhito Igarashi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
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inorganic chemicals Silicon Metabolic Clearance Rate Mineralogy chemistry.chemical_element Fission track dating complex mixtures Concentration ratio Human lung Metabolic clearance rate medicine Humans Air Pollution Radioactive Tissue Distribution Optical emission spectrometry Lung Radiation Chemistry Radiochemistry technology industry and agriculture Middle Aged Uranium medicine.anatomical_structure Female Deposition (chemistry) |
| Zdroj: | RADIOISOTOPES. 36:501-504 |
| ISSN: | 1884-4111 0033-8303 |
| DOI: | 10.3769/radioisotopes.36.10_501 |
| Popis: | Several human lung samples were dissected into lobes and uranium and silicon contents in each lobe were determined by the fission track method and the inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES), respectively. It was found that both uranium and silicon concentrations were high in the upper lobe compared with those in the lower one. Though the tendency may be mainly interpreted by the deposition way of airborne dust in the lung, the higher U/Si concentration ratio in the upper part than that in the lower part of lungs may suggest the partial removal of uranium deposited in the lower part of the tissue. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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