mast-cell sarcoma/citrate

The occurrence of soft tissue tumors has been studied in 117 beagles assigned to 8 dosage groups of between 2 and 26 animals each and injected with 0.07 to 104 kBq 241Am kg-1 as the citrate. In addition, 133 control beagles given no radioactivity were used as a comparison group. All 250 dogs were

Plutonium-239 or 241Am administered intravenously in the monomeric citrate form was initially deposited in beagle livers principally in the hepatocytes and to a much lesser extent in the sinusoidal macrophages and connective tissues. The initial distribution was quite uniform throughout the hepatic