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Radiochlorine38 was evaluated and found to be suitable for use as a tracer in studying the deposition of fat in porcinepanniculus adiposus tissue. Its short half-life makes its preparation from natural chlorine simple and inexpensive, and also minimizes long-term contamination problems, and its energetic beta and gamma rays makes its radio-assay simple and rapid. For swine, the threshhold level for a statistical counting accuracy of 1% was found to be approx 8 × 10−2 mc/lb of live wt. The time required for the digestion, absorption, transport and deposition of statistically sufficient detectable radioactive material was 3 1/2 hr. The incorporation of radiochlorine38 into lipid molecules does not appear to alter their normal metabolic pathways.
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Journal Series of The Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, Paper No. 2818.
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Sink, J.D., Watkins, J.L., Ziegler, J.H. et al. Radiochlorine as a tracer in fat deposition. J Am Oil Chem Soc 42, 435–437 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02635586
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