Journal article
Lead in bone: storage site, exposure source, and target organ.
Abstract
The primary site of lead storage is in bone but relatively little attention has focused on this physiological compartment. Recent advances in measurement technology now permit the direct in vivo quantitative measurement of lead in bone, and this measure has great use in clinical and epidemiologic studies. Lead in bone is not a physiological sink, but can be mobilized back into the circulation in response to normal or pathological changes in …
Authors
Silbergeld EK; Sauk J; Somerman M; Todd A; McNeill F; Fowler B; Fontaine A; van Buren J
Journal
NeuroToxicology, Vol. 14, No. 2-3, pp. 225–236
Publication Date
1993
ISSN
0161-813X