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The dietary effectiveness of an iron-fructose chelate was compared with FeSO4 using the criteria of total iron analyses and histologic staining technics on liver and spleen of rats. The ferric-fructose was more rapidly absorbed and deposited in the tissues indicating the importance of chelation phenomena in metal transport, and suggesting a molecular basis for Bantu cytosiderosis and experimentally induced iron storage in rats.
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