The preliminary development of a plutonium in blood plasma equilibrium model

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 1, Issue C, 2001, Pages 107-119

  Duffield, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aqueous; Blood plasma; Chelation therapy; Chemical equilibrium; Chemical speciation; Citrate; Complexation; Modelling; Plutonium; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956685570     PISSN: 15694860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(01)80010-3     Document Type: Article

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