Cause-of-death registers in radiation-contaminated areas of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

abstract：:Testing the limits of survivability in space is the primary focus in astrobiological research. Although a number of previous studies have examined terrestrial life survival in an extraterrestrial environment, only a few have investigated how life systems respond to high doses of alpha cosmic ray, the main component of...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Miki K,Kawashima S,Takahashi Y,Yonemura S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The root apex cells of Pisum sativum were irradiated in an U-240 isochronous cyclotron at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. Several types of micronuclei, differing in structural peculiarities, were observed in the 84 h following exposure to beams of accelerated 1H,...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vasilenko A,Sidorenko PG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk of cancer after diagnostic X-rays received as fetus or during early childhood has been investigated in many studies. The results of recent epidemiological studies are summarized in a present systematic review. The strategies for literature search, inclusion criteria, and items for study quality assessment wer...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Schulze-Rath R,Hammer GP,Blettner M

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore possible applications of iodoacetate (IA), a glycolytic inhibitor, in cancer treatment, we screened its cytotoxicity and radioprotective/sensitizing efficacy in three different mammalian cell lines; A549 (human lung carcinoma), MCF7 (human mammary cancer), a non-cancerous CHO (Chinese hamster ovary) cells a...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Yadav U,Anjaria KB,Nairy R,Shirsath KB,Desai UN,Chaurasia RK,Bhat NN,Sapra BK

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the dose distributions of an electron microbeam and to help optimization of its design, the condensed-history (CH) Monte Carlo simulation algorithm implemented in the Geant4 toolkit was selected as an alternative to the conventionally used analog algorithm. Compared to the analog algorithm, the CH algorith...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ma Y,Zhou H,Zhuo Y

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiocaesium absorption and retention in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) calves was compared in groups fed diets containing different proportions of lichen and concentrates, and different chemical forms of radiocaesium ((134)CsCl in solution or fallout from the Chernobyl accident). Daily intakes of fallout radiocaesium w...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Skuterud L,Pedersen Ø,Staaland H,Røed KH,Salbu B,Liken A,Hove K

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major part of the liquid radioactive waste released by the Mayak Production Association (PA) radiochemical plant into the Techa river occurred in 1949-1951, but there is information on only one single radiochemical analysis of a water sample taken on 24 and 25 September 1951. These data are here used to assess the...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Mokrov YG

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dose conversion coefficients (DCCs) for assessment of internal and external radiation exposures to terrestrial and aquatic biota are compiled for 75 radionuclides, for 14 terrestrial and 22 aquatic reference organisms. DCC values for internal exposure are calculated based on a homogeneous distribution of the radionucl...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ulanovsky A,Pröhl G

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity catalysing double-strand DNA recombination has been investigated in human tumour cell lines using an in vitro assay in which nuclear extracts from tumour cells are used to catalyse homologous recombination between deletion plasmids. The cell lines investigated showed comparable constitutive levels of recombin...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lehnert S,Chow TY

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth rates and cell diameters were determined from 12 species of plant roots exposed to a 60-Hertz (Hz) electric field of 360 Volts per meter (V/m) in an aqueous inorganic nutrient medium [conductivity: 0.07-0.09 Siemens per meter (S/m)]. The degree of growth depression ranged from zero to nearly 100 percent of cont...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Inoue M,Miller MW,Carstensen EL,Brayman AA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carrier-free 11C-labeled carbon monoxide was produced by proton irradiation of a nitrogen gas flow target via the 14N(p, alpha)11C process followed by on-line reduction of the predominantly formed 11C-carbon dioxide with a yield of 0.4 mCi/muAmin. After appropriate quality control about 2 mCi of carrier-free 11C-carbo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Weinreich R,Ritzl F,Feinendegen LE,Schnippering HG,Stöcklin G

更新日期：1975-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The observable responses of living systems to ionizing radiation depend on the level of biological organization studied. Understanding the relationships between the responses characteristic of the different levels of organization is of crucial importance. The main objective of the present study is to investigate how s...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Madas BG,Balásházy I

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models of human anatomy are mathematical representations of human anatomy designed to be used in dosimetry calculations. They have been used in dosimetry calculations for radiography, radiotherapy, nuclear medicine, radiation protection and to investigate the effects of low frequency electromagnetic fiel...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Caon M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For radiation exposures employing targeted sources such as particle microbeams, the deposition of energy and dose will depend on the spatial heterogeneity of the sample. Although cell structural variations are relatively minor for two-dimensional cell cultures, they can vary significantly for fully differentiated tiss...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Miller JH,Chrisler WB,Wang X,Sowa MB

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity concentrations of the selected radionuclides (40)K, (226)Ra and (232)Th were measured in surface soil samples collected from 38 cities in the southwest region of Nigeria by means of gamma spectroscopy with a high-purity germanium detector. Measured activity concentration values of (40)K varied from 34.9 +/- 4...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ajayi OS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mountainous "Hohe Tauern" region of Salzburg (Austria), milk samples have been collected in a long-term montitoring programme since 1988, at eight alpine sites used for extensive, seasonal stock farming. For this alpine environment with its acidic soils developed on silicate bedrock, high soil-to-plant transfer...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lettner H,Hubmer A,Bossew P,Strebl F,Steinhäusler F

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The probability of the formation of ionization clusters by primary alpha-particles at 5.4 MeV in nanometric volumes of propane was studied experimentally and by Monte Carlo simulation, as a function of the distance between the center line of the particle beam and the center of the target volume. The volumes were of cy...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： De Nardo L,Colautti P,Conte V,Baek WY,Grosswendt B,Tornielli G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work was to define the possible occurrence of hematological changes during the course of a chronic ingestion of (137)Cs. A mouse model was used, with ingestion through drinking water with a cesium concentration of 20 kBq l(-1). Ingestion started in parent animals before mating, and (137)Cs intake and i...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Bertho JM,Louiba S,Faure MC,Tourlonias E,Stefani J,Siffert B,Paquet F,Dublineau I

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study reported in the present paper aimed to evaluate the effective energy (Eeff) of X-rays emitted from the surface of a bare X-ray probe and from different spherical applicators with various diameters, which are widely employed for low kV intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) of breast cancer. A previously validate...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shamsabadi R,Baghani HR,Mowlavi AA,Azadegan B

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing hair follicles with their rapid cell proliferation would be expected to be sensitive organs to cytotoxic agents such as radiation. Various abnormalities in the hair and hair follicles have been reported in the past. Changes in the number of cells in the newly forming hair cortex have been shown in the mouse to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Potten CS,Burt PA,Roberts SA,Deshpande NA,Williams PC,Ramsden J

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxyhemoglobin saturation (HbO2) of single red blood cells within tumor microvessels (diameter: 3-12 micrometers) of DS-Carcinosarcoma was studied using a cryophotometric micromethod. In untreated control tumors (mean tissue temperature approx. 35 degrees C) the measured values scattered over the whole saturation r...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vaupel PW,Otte J,Manz R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ionizing irradiation on the physiological activity of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in smooth muscle preparations from frog lung was studied. cAMP, given as dibutyryl salt (dib-cAMP) inhibited the radiation induced contractions of the muscle in a manner similar to the action of theophylline. In v...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Schachinger L,Michailov M,Owusa Daaku S,Prechter I,Klöter H,Schippel C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulphur-containing radioprotectors mercaptoethylamine (MEA), aminoethylisothiourea (AET), 2- aminothiazoline , 4-oxo-2- aminothiazoline , and S-S-3- oxapentane -1,5- diisothiourea , and the radioprotective biogenic amines serotonin, histamine, and dopamine, caused the elevation of cAMP content and intensified the ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Sobolev AS,Chirkov YuYu,Tertov VV,Kazarov AR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo model is presented to study details of the energy deposition inside tracks of heavy charged particles in water vapor. The input data for most of the calculations based on the binary encounter approximation are double-differential cross sections for electron emission after heavy-ion impact. The paths of t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Krämer M,Kraft G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main aim of this study was to investigate the dosimetric characteristics of the INTRABEAM ® system in the presence of air gaps between the surface of applicators (APs) and tumor bed. Additionally, the effect of tissue heterogeneities was another focus. Investigating the dosimetric characteristics of the INTRABEAM®...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Tegaw EM,Gholami S,Omyan G,Geraily G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model which simulates the observed dose-effect relationships for fish eggs exposed to chronic irradiation is presented. The model assumes that the exposed fish eggs may exist in one of the following states: normally developing, reversibly damaged, and lethally damaged. Reversible damages may be recovere...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kryshev AI,Sazykina TG,Badalian KD

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major goal of this study was to identify and quantitatively describe the association between the characteristics of chronic (low-dose rate) exposure to (low LET) ionizing radiation and cellularity of peripheral blood cell lines. About 3,200 hemograms (i.e., spectra of blood counts) obtained over the years of maxim...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Akleyev AV,Akushevich IV,Dimov GP,Veremeyeva GA,Varfolomeyeva TA,Ukraintseva SV,Yashin AI

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological phenomena observed at low doses of ionizing radiation (adaptive response, bystander effects, genomic instability, etc.) are still not well understood. While at high irradiation doses, cellular death may be directly linked to DNA damage, at low doses, other cellular structures may be involved in what are...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Cunha M,Testa E,Komova OV,Nasonova EA,Mel'nikova LA,Shmakova NL,Beuve M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Goiânia accident, Brazil, was used as an opportunity to quantify the contributions of different mechanisms, in particular mass loading, leading to caesium uptake by leafy vegetables in a semi-urban environment contaminated with 137Cs. Soil splash contributions of 70-90% were quantified for lettuce and 50-60% for g...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Amaral EC,Paretzke HG,Campos MJ,Pires do Rio MA,Franklin M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation is known to be carcinogenic to humans but attempts to demonstrate the process using human tissue culture models have met with little success. In the present study explants were established from urothelium and exposed to radiation and a range of chemical carcinogens, suspected promotor or metabolic agents. Th...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Mothersill C,O'Brien A,Seymour CB

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00