more on feline type critters Re: Dr. Walland -

[mozley@darius.pet.upenn.edu (P. David Mozley, M.D.)]

The question needs to be reformulated.  The issue is not how much activity
is in the salavary glands, i.e., the sial cells. The problem is the
activity in the saliva itself, i.e., the slobber.  The activity on the
critter's fur coat from slobber is going to be trivial compared to the
activity on the cat's feet from urine after scratching around in the litter
box.  The cat would need  a lot of little blue booties to comply with the
histrionic and totalitarian regulations on this side of the Atlantic.

The question could probably be rendered moot by suggesting that the human
beings who are owned and operated by the cat simply take a dose or two of
SSKI and forget about it. Or, they could hospitalize the cat for 80 days,
which only costs about $100 a day here.  But, we live in a competitive
health care market, where the last cardiology consult for one of my wife's
little monsters only cost me $500 plus the technical fee for the
echocardiogram   . . . . .

>Dr. Walland -
>
>In the human, the maximum uptake of I-131 in the salivary glands is
>around 3%, as reported in MIRD Dose Estimate Report No. 5 (J Nucl Med
>16:857-860, 1975).  So the percentage in animals should be somewhat
>similar, I would think.  I am used to extrapolating animal data to humans,
>but I have never been asked to extrapolate in the other direction!
>
>Mike Stabin
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