Deposition and Disappearance of Digitoxin from the Tissues of the Rat, Rabbit, and Dog after Parenteral Injection

Meyer Friedman, Shirley St. George, René Bine, Sanford O. Byers, CATHARINE BLAND

Circulation · 1952 · 30 citations · 0 references

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Digitoxin administered to the rat, rabbit, or dog has no specific avidity for heart muscle. The quantity recovered from this organ at any time was no greater than from liver or kidney, while these organs continued to contain the glycoside for a much longer period of time.