From "Toxicology of Metals" edited by Lois W. Chang, 1996.

"For example, Zalups (1993) demonstrated recently that only about
43% of the dose of mercury remained in the blood of rats 1 min after
they received an intravenous nontoxic dose of mercuric chloride,
indicating rapid abstraction of mercury from the blood. Of the
mercury remaining in the blood, 50% was in the plasma and 50% was
associated with the cellular components of blood. Zalups (1993) also
showed that by the end of 3 h following injection, less than 10% of
the dose of mercury was present in the blood, and of that, only 30%
was in the plasma. Much of the reduction in the content of mercury
in the blood was presumably due to abstraction and uptake by the
kidneys, since 50% of the administered dose was present in the total
renal mass 3 h after injection."

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