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AN increase in the number of mast cells has been reported in the thymus, spleen and bone marrow of mice exposed to long-continued gamma irradiation1. Hypoplasia of the bone marrow has been reported in animals and man following the administration of radioactive colloidal gold (gold-198)2, but no reference is made to any change in the mast cells. In the course of an investigation of the general histo-pathological effects of colloidal gold-198 administered to rats, we have found an increase in the mast cell population of the bone marrow.
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GUIMARAES, J., TAYLOR, D. Effect of Radioactive Colloidal Gold on the Mast Cells of Bone Marrow. Nature 179, 914–915 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179914a0
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