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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Jul 5;232(18):3455–3467. doi: 10.1007/s00213-015-4000-4

Figure 2. Serum concentrations of lithium after 17 days of different doses of lithium treatment in drinking water.

Figure 2

Lithium (Li) at 300 mg/l resulted in low serum levels (0.17 ± 0.04 mmol/l), while 1200 mg/l resulted in high/toxic Li concentrations (1.34 ± 0.25 mmol/l). Drinking water with Li 600 mg/l resulted in low therapeutic serum concentrations for bipolar disorder (0.46 ± 0.14 mmol/l). Comparative lithium levels are provided from earlier publications, the variability from which is discussed below. Data are presented as mean ± S.E.M.