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Copper is excreted into the bile of rats against a large bile/plasma concentration ratio. The biliary excretion of copper is very temperature dependent in that a fourteenfold decrease in excretion was observed when the temperature of the rats was decreased from 40 to 30°.
The author acknowledges the very able technical assistance of Mr. W. R. Kerr and Mrs. Mary Reeves.
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