Measurement of activity concentrations of 40K, 226Ra and 232Th for assessment of radiation hazards from soils of the southwestern region of Nigeria.

abstract：:It is shown by UV absorption and absolute fluorescence spectroscopy of solutions containing both DNA and quinacrine that the components experience mutual radio-protection due to scavenging of water radicals. From measurements at different ionic strengths it is inferred that quinacrine bound to DNA is more efficiently ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Hissung A,Dertinger H,Heinrich G

更新日期：1975-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1990s, information on radiation-exposed populations other than those exposed from the Chernobyl accident in 1986 has become increasingly available for international scientific research. It is essential to understand how the cohorts of exposed populations have been defined and what mechanisms can be use...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Winkelmann RA,Tretyakov FD,Startsev NV,Kolyado IB,Gusev BI,Grosche B,Storm HH,Hall P

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cosmic radiation is an occupational risk factor for commercial aircrews. In this large European cohort study (ESCAPE) its association with cancer mortality was investigated on the basis of individual effective dose estimates for 19,184 male pilots. Mean annual doses were in the range of 2-5 mSv and cumulative lifetime...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Langner I,Blettner M,Gundestrup M,Storm H,Aspholm R,Auvinen A,Pukkala E,Hammer GP,Zeeb H,Hrafnkelsson J,Rafnsson V,Tulinius H,De Angelis G,Verdecchia A,Haldorsen T,Tveten U,Eliasch H,Hammar N,Linnersjö A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of gamma radiation on red blood cells have been examined using a spin labeling method. For this purpose two spin labels were used to monitor membrane fluidity: methyl 5-doxylpalmitate (Met 5-DP) and methyl 12-doxylstearate (Met 12-DS). The irradiation of red cells with the doses of 200 and 500 Gy caused dec...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Gwoździński K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cl-36 is an important component of nuclear waste. The concentrations of stable chlorine (Cl) in pig and cow tissues were measured to provide information which can be used to parameterize models of (36)Cl transfer into agricultural animals. The concentration of stable Cl in cows' milk was 1.0 +/- 0.2 g L(-1), in cow mu...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Levchuk S,Kashparov V,Lazarev N,Colle C,Howard B,Yoschenko V,Yoschenko L

更新日期：2008-02-01 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 model of radiocaesium transfer to sheep presented by Galer et al. provides reliable predictions only for sheep of a similar body weight to those used in the development of the model (approximately 30 kg). To extend the applicability of the model, it was necessary to re-parameterise it in terms of activity concentr...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Crout NM,Beresford NA,Howard BJ,Mayes RW,Assimakopoulos PA,Vandecasteele CM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-cancer mortality data for cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and cardiovascular diseases from Report 13 on the atomic bomb survivors published by the Radiation Effects Research Foundation were analysed to investigate the dose-response for the influence of radiation on these detrimental health effects. Various param...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Schöllnberger H,Kaiser JC,Jacob P,Walsh L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of biophysical models of chromosome aberration induction has undergone considerable improvements in the past few years. This is mainly due to the development of new experimental techniques, such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and premature chromosome condensation (PCC), and to a better kn...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ottolenghi A,Ballarini F,Merzagora M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, direct DNA damage induced by low-energy electrons (<5 keV) is simulated using Monte Carlo methods, and the resulting yield of various strand breaks and base damages in cellular environment is presented. The simulation is based on a new inelastic cross section for the production of electron track structur...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Zhang L,Tan Z

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In head computed tomography, radiation upon the eye lens (as an organ with high radiosensitivity) may cause lenticular opacity and cataracts. Therefore, quantitative dose assessment due to exposure of the eye lens and surrounding tissue is a matter of concern. For this purpose, an accurate eye model with realistic geo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Akhlaghi P,Ebrahimi-Khankook A,Vejdani-Noghreiyan A

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effects of three disasters (the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, followed by a tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident) on feeding methods and growth in infants born after the disasters. Using results from the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Soso Distric...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kyozuka H,Yasuda S,Kawamura M,Nomura Y,Fujimori K,Goto A,Yasumura S,Abe M

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article is devoted to the study of the role of intracellular mechanisms in the formation of radiation-induced genetic instability and its transgenerational effect in cells of different tissues of the descendants of Drosophila melanogaster mutant strains whose parents were exposed to chronic radiation (0.42 and 3.5...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Yushkova E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four different thiol reagents: p-chloromercuribenzoic acid (pCMB), mercuric chloride (HgCl2), N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), and 5,5'-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) were employed as agents modifying the transport of a hydrophilic and hydrophobic non-electrolyte spin labels: 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Gwoździński K,Bartosz G,Leyko W

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heads of rats were irradiated by 4 MeV electrons in doses 90, 180, and 360 Gy. The observed times of deaths ranged 120-600, 60-420, and 150-370 min after 90, 180, and 360 Gy, respectively. A dose dependent decrease of the brain uptake index of haloperidol was observed 1 and 3 h post radiation. On the other hand an...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Trnovec T,Volenec K,Bezek S,Kállay Z,Durisová M,Scasnár V,Kubu M,Svoboda V

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Those working in interventional cardiology are exposed to varying radiation doses during diagnostic and interventional procedures. The work presented in this paper aimed to monitor the effective doses received by different categories of medical staff members practicing interventional cardiology procedures including se...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ghany HAA,Diab HM,Salah A,Taha AA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Native horseradish peroxidase, as well as its reduced and carboxymethylated form, and the apoenzyme, showed resistance to photodynamic action. Sensitivity to this action was detected only in reduced and carboxymethylated apoenzyme, when the photooxidation of its histidine residues was observed. When analyzing the bulk...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Silva E,Barrera M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimates are presented on the carbon-14 generation rates in several reactor types and in peaceful nuclear explosions. If the carbon-14 generated in light water reactors is released, the population radiation dose rate it causes initially will be comparable to that resulting from the krypton-85 and tritium generated in...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Pohl RO

更新日期：1976-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures for age-adjustment of cancer fractions are proposed which do not require fixed age intervals. The full available information on survival times can then be used, which is especially important in small treatment groups. For incidental cancers a non-decreasing prevalence function and for fatal cancers the Kapl...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Heidenreich WF,Collier C,Morlier JP,Cross FT,Kaiser JC,Monchaux G

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-linear mechanical response of viscoelastic strain responding media to high amplitude stress-strain is examined from a phenomenological point of view and found to lead to results compatible with empirical observations of high intensity ultrasound irradiation of brain, liver, and eye lens tissues. The proposed hyste...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Johnston RL,Dunn F

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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：:Time-dependent yields of the most important products of water radiolysis E(aq)(-), (*)OH, H(*), H(3)O(+), H(2), OH(-) and H(2)O(2) have been calculated for (60)Co-photons, electrons, protons, helium- and carbon-ions incident onto water. G values have been evaluated for the interval from 1 ps to 1 mus after initial ene...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kreipl MS,Friedland W,Paretzke HG

更新日期：2009-02-01 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 aim of this study was to detect membrane fluidity modifications in blood lymphocytes that had been exposed to gamma-radiation, at a graded series of depths from the surface to the centre of the membrane bilayer and as a function of cell viability. A time course was performed to verify the contribution of the membr...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vincent-Genod L,Benderitter M,Voisin P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Checkpoints are components of signalling pathways involved in genome stability. We analysed the putative dual functions of Rad17 and Chk1 as checkpoints and in DNA repair using mutant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Logarithmic populations of the diploid checkpoint-deficient mutants, chk1Delta/chk1Delta and rad17...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Bracesco N,Candreva EC,Keszenman D,Sánchez AG,Soria S,Dell M,Siede W,Nunes E

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the mechanism of chemical radiosensitization by halogenated bases incorporated into DNA. Radiation-induced base and sugar-phosphate backbone damage to 5-bromouridine-5'-monophosphate (5-BrUMP) was monitored using a flow system connected in series with a recording spectrophotome...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Greenstock CL,Whitehouse RP

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to establish slice culture preparations from rodents and humans as a new model system for studying effects of X-rays and heavy ions within normal and tumor tissues. The advantage of such slice cultures relies on the conservation of an organotypic environment, the easy treat...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Merz F,Müller M,Taucher-Scholz G,Rödel F,Stöcker H,Schopow K,Laprell L,Dehghani F,Durante M,Bechmann I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Roots of Pisum sativum L. were chronically exposed to 60-Hz vertical electric fields ranging from 150 to 450V/m in an aqueous medium whose conductivity was approximately 0.07 S/m. Control and exposed roots were grown concomitantly in the same tank whose medium was continuously circulated and maintained at 19 degrees C...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Miller MW,Dooley DA,Cox C,Carstensen EL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00