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Two strains of White Leghorn chickens designated as R and S have been developed from common parentage at this station1. When chickens of these two strains were injected intramuscularly with 3 mg mercury as phenyl-mercuric acetate (PMA) or mercuric chloride/kg/body-wt., 2–4 times more mercury was retained by the livers and kidneys of the R strain chickens than was retained by the same organs from the S strain chickens2,3. Lillis et al.4 reported a similar differential retention when chickens from these strains were injected with 9.1 mg copper as cupric acetate/kg/body-wt.
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LARKIN, D., MILLER, V., BEARSE, G. et al. Effects of Starvation and Protein Depletion on Mercury Retention in Two Strains of Chickens. Nature 208, 706–707 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208706a0
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