“…The finding that technetium derivatives of polyphosphates and PPi are accumulated in bone (Subramanian, McAfee, Bell, Blair, O'Mara & Ralston, 1972;Hosain, 1973;Subramanian & McAfee, 1971), a property which is currently used for skeletal scintigraphy, suggests that such transport occurs in vivo. However, although it is often 265 believed that the phosphate moiety is likely to be involved in the uptake because it binds to the mineral (Subramanian & McAfee, 1971;Jones, Francis & Davis, 1975), other possibilities, such as adsorption of the reduced tin present in the technetium complex (Cox, 1974) cannot be ex cluded. There is also no proof that PPi itself is taken up by the same process as are the technetium derivatives, since technetium might change the characteristics of PPi, for example, by rendering it more resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis.…”