| Abstract: | 1. After an intraperitoneal injection of 59Fe the recovery of radioactivity in the liver, but not in other tissues, was increased in cobalt-pretreated rats. There was no proportional increase in the radioactivity recovered from liver haem. 2. Rats were injected intravenously with serum containing protein-bound 59Fe and 125I-labelled albumin as a marker. At various times after injection the specific radioactivities of iron in plasma and of non-haem iron in liver were determined; corrections were applied for the content of plasma in samples of liver. In cobalt-pretreated rats there was a more rapid loss of 59Fe radioactivity from the plasma and a corresponding increase in the uptake of 59Fe into liver non-haem iron. 3. The results are discussed in relation to the possible sites of action of cobalt, and the possibility is considered that only a fraction of the liver non-haem iron may be involved. |
