title: Lead and iron absorption from rat small intestine: the effect of dietary Fe deficiency.
abstract: 1. When lead is administered in drinking-water iron-deficient rats retain more Pb than Fe-replete rats (Six & Goyer, 1972; Klauder & Petering, 1975). In the present study the relationship between the absorption of Pb and Fe was investigated. 2. Adult male rats were transfered to a milk-based diet fed with or without supplementary Fe (180 mg Fe/kg as ferrous sulphate). After 7--9 d the absorption of duodenally-administered 203Pb and 59Fe was measured as uptake of radioactivity from the gastrointestinal tract after 90 min. 59Fe absorption was increased in rats given the unsupplemented diet for 7 d and was further increased in rats kept on the diet for up to 7 weeks. 203Pb absorption was not consistently increased by either short- or long-term Fe deprivation. 3. Much of the 203Pb in homogenates of the upper small intestine was bound to soluble protein of which up to 85% was dialysable. In contrast little 59Fe was dialysable. Only a small proportion of the soluble musosal Pb was associated with ferritin during gel-filtration chromatography although 203Pb precipitated together with carrier rat-liver ferritin with an antibody to rat-liver ferritin. 4. There appeared to be no direct relationship between the transfer of Fe and Pb across the small intestine of the adult rat.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000378:metabolism; D007501:Iron / Q000378:metabolism*; D000090463:Iron Deficiencies; D007854:Lead / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007854:Lead; D007501:Iron