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The transport of vanadium across placenta and milk rats was studied by iv injection of low doses of48V-labeled pentavanadate (0.1 μg V/rat) to pregnant and nursing rats. Significant concentrations of vanadium were found in the liver, intestine, and kidneys of the fetuses, showing that vanadium is capable to pass the placental barrier and, thus, being metabolized in the fetuses.
Two days after injection of 0.1 μg V/rat as48V-labeled vanadate to nursing rats, 34 ng V/g milk were found, decreasing to 4 ng V/g at the d 12 after dosing. The corresponding suckling rats showed a significant absorption of vanadium taken up by the milk, as suggested by the presence in their intestine, where48V is easily absorbed in form of low molecular weight components.
Vanadium in milk may be transported in the form of a biocomplex with lactoferrin, since at 12 d after injection, the48V in the rat milk was mainly found in fractions corresponding to proteins. In weanling rats, 7 d postlactation and 18 d after administration of vanadium to the mother, only very small amounts of48V were still present in the organs. Excretion studies on weanling rats for 7 d showed that vanadium is rapidly released mainly via feces when earlier taken up by the milk of iv injected mothers and having the same elimination pattern as the milk, which lost about 80% of its vanadium concentration after 12 d.
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Edel, J., Sabbioni, E. Vanadium transport across placenta and milk of rats to the fetus and newborn. Biol Trace Elem Res 22, 265–275 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916615
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