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15 November 2017 Second-order Kinetics of DTPA and Plutonium in Rat Plasma
Guthrie Miller, Deepesh Poudel, John A. Klumpp, Raymond A. Guilmette, Dunstana Melo
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Abstract

In 2008, Serandour et al. reported on their in vitro experiment involving rat plasma samples obtained after an intravenous intake of plutonium citrate. Different amounts of DTPA were added to the plasma samples and the percentage of low-molecular-weight plutonium measured. Only when the DTPA dosage was three orders of magnitude greater than the recommended 30 μmol/kg was 100% of the plutonium apparently in the form of chelate. These data were modeled assuming three competing chemical reactions with other molecules that bind with plutonium. Here, time-dependent second-order kinetics of these reactions are calculated, intended eventually to become part of a complete biokinetic model of DTPA action on actinides in laboratory animals or humans. The probability distribution of the ratio of stability constants for the reactants was calculated using Markov Chain Monte Carlo. These calculations substantiate that the inclusion of more reactions is needed in order to be in agreement with known stability constants.

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Guthrie Miller, Deepesh Poudel, John A. Klumpp, Raymond A. Guilmette, and Dunstana Melo "Second-order Kinetics of DTPA and Plutonium in Rat Plasma," Radiation Research 189(1), 64-67, (15 November 2017). https://doi.org/10.1667/RR14852.1
Received: 7 June 2017; Accepted: 1 September 2017; Published: 15 November 2017
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