Mercury Disposition in Suckling Rats: Comparative Assessment Following Parenteral Exposure to Thiomersal and Mercuric Chloride

Table 1

Total mercury in whole blood, urine, liver, kidneys, small intestine, large intestine, and brain of the control pups.

	Median	Range (min.–max. value)
Whole blood (μg/L)	0.32	0.24–0.51
Urine (μg/L)	0.19	0.1–0.74
Liver (ng/g)	3.56	2.97–4.51
Kidneys (ng/g)	10.1	6.04–12.37
Small intestine (ng/g)	7.58	5.77–9.74
Large intestine (ng/g)	14.2	10.26–15.43
Brain (ng/g)	2.24	1.82–2.63

Total number of animals in the control group was 12, that is, 2 pups in each litter of the six litters in total.