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THE biological behaviour of the rare earths has recently become a question of increasing importance1. Early recognition of the prominent occurrence of several of these elements in fission products2 stimulated a wide scope of distribution studies in animals and, to a limited extent, in man. Yet, we could find among these studies no mention of a specific biochemical or histological effect except for a brief communication from this laboratory on fatty liver degeneration3 and some earlier reports on rare earths as anticoagulants4.
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SNYDER, F., CRESS, E. & KYKER, G. Rare-Earth Fatty Liver. Nature 185, 480–481 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185480a0
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