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Short-lasting accumulation in osteoid bone seams of radioactive iron injected as citrate into mice.

The possible role in vivo of osseous structures in binding radioactive iron injected as a low-molecular-weight complex was studied in mice, using combined autoradiography and histomorphometry on sections of undecalcified, plastic-embedded femur epiphyses/metaphyses. A single intraperitoneal injection of 10 microCi 59Fe (1.2 micrograms Fe) per animal as citrate within 3 hours led to a preferential accumulation of this metal in the osteoid mineralized tissue interphase (osteoid seams) of bone. Within the next 2 days the labeling intensity in this localization diminished markedly to approximate levels of the bone marrow and calcified bone. The bulk of the injected radioiron was utilized according to known erythrokinetics. Findings suggest a direct entry of "free," ie, not transferrin-bound, iron into osteoid seams and its consecutive rapid removal from this site.

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Electron microscope autoradiography of erythroid cells using radioactive iron.

The "circle analysis" method of Williams (1969) and a new improved method employing hypothetical grains described in the previous paper have been used to analyze the distribution of autoradiographic grains over erythroid bone marrow cells labeled with radioactive iron, (55)Fe. The resolution obtainable with this isotope was determined by measuring the distribution of grains about a thin line source. This distribution was also used in calculation of the circle size for the Williams's analysis and the distances of hypothetical grains for the new method. The new method provides estimates for the amount of activity in the regions of condensed and extended nuclear chromatin and for the concentration of isotope at the junction between these two areas. The possible significance of activity in this junctional region is discussed.

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