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- From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.032507.6287@sugra.uucp>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:25:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.034442.12361@gn.ecn.purdue.edu: <550001@hplred.HPL.HP.COM>
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- In article <550001@hplred.HPL.HP.COM: curry@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Bo Curry) writes:
- :Not necessarily helpful I think that when Pu enters the marrow, it is actually
- : in the bone itself, not the marrow cells. It should substitute for Ca in
- : the bone structure. A marrow transplant would probably leave the Pu behind
- : to make leukemia all over again. I doubt there is any effective treatment
- : for over-exposure to Pu.
- :Actually I've heard Pu can be leached out with some organic compounds,
- :so it can be flushed out of the body with treatment - anyone know
- :what the current status of that is?
-
- Source: Handbook on Toxicity of Inorganic Compounds, edited by Hans G. Seiler.
- Page 724, on plutonium detoxification. "A chelating agent, DTPA, is widely
- used for this treatment. ... It efficiently combats contamination by soluble
- compounds and prevents the bloodstream from transporting Pu to liver, bone,
- and other target organs, by chelating the plutonium bound to blood proteins.
- ... The DTPA chelate is excreted in the urine. DTPA has no real effect once
- the plutonium is deposited on the skeleton."
-
- Now is my conjecture. Has anyone ever tried large concentrations of calcium
- in the diet for long term (and gradual) reduction of plutonium in bone? My
- presumption is that the body will tend to absorb calcium, as opposed to
- plutoium, which is really what it is after.
-
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- Kenneth Ng
- Please reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.
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