Journal article
Partition of circulating lead between serum and red cells is different for internal and external sources of lead
Abstract
Serum lead, whole blood lead, and lead in both tibia and calcaneus were measured in each of 49 active lead workers. Serum lead correlated more strongly with both in vivo bone lead measurements than did whole blood lead. The ratio of serum lead to whole blood lead varied from 0.8% to 2.5% and showed a positive correlation with tibia, and an even stronger correlation with calcaneus lead. This implies that lead released from bone (endogenous …
Authors
Cake KM; Bowins RJ; Vaillancourt C; Gordon CL; McNutt RH; Laporte R; Webber CE; Chettle DR
Journal
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 440–445
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
5 1996
DOI
10.1002/(sici)1097-0274(199605)29:5<440::aid-ajim2>3.0.co;2-q
ISSN
0271-3586