Word: radiostrontium
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...week in San Francisco, Biochemist Arthur Lindenbaum of the Argonne National Laboratory told the American Chemical Society how he and his colleagues had tested a chemical that flushes out strontium selectively and spares the body's calcium. Used so far only in rats (no human victims of acute radiostrontium poisoning are known), the chemical is a tasteless yellow dye, the rhodizonate salt of either sodium or potassium. Lindenbaum and his colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then...
Alone, the big doses proved moderately poisonous, but this effect was checked by simultaneously giving the rats a diuretic, acetazoleamide (trade name: Diamox). Then, depending on how it was given, the rhodizonate picked up 20% to 40% of the radiostrontium so that it was flushed out in body wastes within 24 hours-provided the rats were kept foodless. Next problem, said Lindenbaum, is to find out whether fasting is necessary for rhodizonate to work, or whether there is a way to get around this. Either way, he was confident that rhodizonate, which human subjects could take by mouth...
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