Abstract:
79Se, with little radioactivity and little intrusiveness to biological tissue even to cell, is an ideal tracer nuclide for long period and non-intrusive biological research of selenium. Establishment of its tracer methodology is significant in biomedicine and life science.
79Se-AMS is an alternative owing to its high sensitivity, accuracy and precision. Tracer experiment using
79Se was carried out to investigate the metabolism kinetics of selenium in the rat kidney, and therefore establishment of
79Se-AMS biological tracer methodology is detailed, including tracing sample preparation, chemical procedure, and AMS measurement processing. During AMS measurement, molecular negative ions of SeO
-2 were extracted from the ion source, and the counts of
79Se were determined from the discrimination between
79Se and
79Br by four-anode double-grid ionization chamber. Metabolism curve of sub-poisonous selenium in the kidney of Wistar rat was established finally. Further applications of
79Se-AMS for biological research will be explored.