Accidental suppression of the accumulation of radioiodide by the thyroids of Japanese quail exposed to an iodinated disinfectant.
The walls and floor of a room housing a Japanese quail colony were treated with a commercial disinfectant containing iodine complexed to organic molecules. The room was washed vigorously with hot water using a pressure hose, a procedure discouraged by instructions on the shipping container. A condensate, tinged yellow-brown presumably by elemental iodine, settled on the walls, ceiling and quail pens. Accumulations of tracer doses of iodide-125 or iodide-131 by the thyroid glands of these birds were approximately one-seventh (6-hour uptake) to one-thirtieth (18-hour uptake) as great as for control birds from non-disinfected areas.
D000818:Animals; D003370:Coturnix / Q000378:metabolism*; D004202:Disinfectants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007455:Iodine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D011784:Quail / Q000378:metabolism*; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
D004202:Disinfectants; D007455:Iodine