Procedural modifications for the determination of lead in microquantities of blood of young Japanese quail.
Lead analyses were performed on capillary blood samples from 2-week-old Japanese quail, using a standard microprocedure. The difficulties encountered included coagulation when the blood aliquot was diluted with Triton X-100, loss of lead during the ashing stage, and non-parallel calibration curves. Recommendations to overcome these problems are presented.
D000818:Animals; D003370:Coturnix / Q000097:blood*; D007854:Lead / Q000097:blood*; D008832:Microchemistry / Q000379:methods; D011784:Quail / Q000097:blood*; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
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