STUDY ON THE ACCUMULATION OF ENRICHED URANIUM UO2F2 IN SUBCELLULAR LEVEL BY ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC AUTORADIOGRAPHY

In this paper we try to study the retentive peculiarity of soluble enriched uranium UO2F2 in subcellular level by electron microscopic autoradiography. The early dynamic accumulation of radioactivity in the body showed that enriched uranium UO2F2 was chiefly localized in kidney, especially accumulated in epicyte of kidney near- convoluted tubule. In liver cells, enriched uranium UO2F2 at first deposited in the nucleus and the cytoplasm, then accumulated in mitochondria selectively and lysosome as well. The electron microscopic autoradiographic study showed that the dynamic retention of radioactivity of enriched uranium UO2F2 in skeleton rose steadily throughout the exposure. Enriched uranium UO2F2 chiefly deposited in nucleus and mitochondria of the osteoblast as well as osteoclast.