Effect of ionizing irradiation on the physiological activity of cyclic adenosine monophosphate on smooth muscle preparations.

abstract：:Survival and G2 dalay following exposure to either 60Cobalt-gamma-rays or 241Americium-alpha-particles were studied in eight mammalian cell lines of human and animal origin including human fibroblasts from normal individuals and from patients with Ataxia telangiectasia or Fanconi's anemia. For both endpoints the effec...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lücke-Huhle C,Comper W,Hieber L,Pech M

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:An LBO (Li2B4O7) walled ionization chamber was designed to monitor the epithermal neutron fluence in boron neutron capture therapy clinical irradiation. The thermal and epithermal neutron sensitivities of the device were evaluated using accelerator neutrons from the 9Be(d, n) reaction at a deuteron energy of 4 MeV (4 ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Endo S,Sato H,Shimazaki T,Nakajima E,Kotani K,Suda M,Hamano T,Kajimoto T,Tanaka K,Hoshi M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcalorimetric experiments on growth and maintenance metabolism of Saccharomyces strains ranging from haploid to hexaploid are described. During growth, the mean dry weight, the mean volume and the maximum heat flux of the cells are nearly linear functions of ploidy. These parameters are correlated with the cell co...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lamprecht I,Schaarschmidt B,Welge G

更新日期：1976-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the radiological assessment of the near-surface Maisiagala radioactive waste repository (Lithuania) over the period 2005-2012, with focus on water pathways and special emphasis on tritium. The study includes an assessment of the effect of post-closure upgrading, the durability of which is greater t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Nedveckaite T,Gudelis A,Vives i Batlle J

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:Analyses of structural aberrations of chromosomes and of the body burden of lead-210 were carried out in a group of workers occupationally exposed to chemical pollutants and low doses of ionizing radiation during a technological process in which coal is used as fuel. A parallel study was performed in a control group o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Horvat D,Bauman A,Racić J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-random distribution of DNA breakage in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) experiments poses a problem of proper subtraction of the background damage to obtain a fragment-size distribution due to radiation only. As been pointed out by various authors, a naive bin-to-bin subtraction of the background signal...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ponomarev AL,Belli M,Hahnfeldt PJ,Hlatky L,Sachs RK,Cucinotta FA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of neutron scattering in the wall of a spherical proportional counter on the energy deposition spectra and the absorbed dose is investigated. Event probabilities, and frequency and dose-averaged deposited energies are calculated with and without scattering contribution and compared. The change of absorbe...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Coppola M,Booz J

更新日期：1975-06-18 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：: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 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：:The kinetics of fluoresceindiacetate (FDA)-hydrolysis in erythrocytes, CHO-cells and homogenized cells was investigated by means of fluorescence spectroscopy. At a 10(-6)m FDA concentration the enzymatic conversion in the homogenized cells can be described by first order reactions. When studying intact cells, total ki...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Sontag W

更新日期：1977-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The work reported here was originally motivated by a discussion of Monte Carlo computer codes for electron transport in water given in Report No. 130 by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). It was pointed out (correctly) that a published depth-dose distribution calculated by the Oak Ri...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Semenenko VA,Turner JE,Borak TB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More accurate reconstruction of the radioactive contamination of the Techa River system in 1949-1951 has been made on the basis of refined data on the amounts and the rate of discharge of radionuclides into the Techa River from the Mayak Production Association; this has led to the development of a modified Techa River...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shagina NB,Vorobiova MI,Degteva MO,Peremyslova LM,Shishkina EA,Anspaugh LR,Napier BA

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Within the Theory of Dual Radiation Action, the heuristically useful function, gamma(chi), that two energy depositions, a distance chi apart, will result in observable damage can be written in terms of two more fundamental quantities: One, s(chi), describes the structure of the sensitive matrix of the cell. The other,...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Brenner DJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematoporphyrin (Hp) solutions were subjected to a wide range high intensity (0.2-10.0 GW/cm2) near-UV laser pulse radiation (lambda exc = 355 nm, pulse duration 30 ps). The formation of stable Hp photoproducts was followed by UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy and liquid-gel column chromatography. As judged by the influe...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Gantchev T,Keskinova E,Kaltchev M,Angelov D

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:This study aimed to evaluate the biological effects of gamma irradiation on zebrafish embryos. Different doses of gamma rays (0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5 and 1 Gy) were used to irradiate zebrafish embryos at three developmental stages (stage 1, 6 h post-fertilization (hpf); stage 2, 12 hpf; stage three, 24 hpf), respectively...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Hu M,Hu N,Ding D,Zhao W,Feng Y,Zhang H,Li G,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The migration of radionuclides from waste repositories to the biosphere potentially leads to a contamination of soil. Due to the importance of food production, the mobilisation and accumulation behaviour of long-lived radionuclides in the soil plays a key role in performance assessment studies. In this paper, the main...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Koch-Steindl H,Pröhl G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this pilot study we compared for the first time the radiation sensitivity of mouse lens epithelial cells (LECs) and mouse lymphocytes. We freshly prepared LECs and lymphocytes and irradiated them with γ-rays ((137)Cs; doses ranging from 0.25 to 2 Gy). DNA damage and repair were evaluated by alkaline comet assay and...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Bannik K,Rössler U,Faus-Kessler T,Gomolka M,Hornhardt S,Dalke C,Klymenko O,Rosemann M,Trott KR,Atkinson M,Kulka U,Graw J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the properties of ATPase (EC 3.6.1.3) of Micrococcus luteus depend only to some extent on the state of the membrane to which it is attached. Its interaction with the membrane appears to be largely controlled by polar forces. It is shown, however, that the UV-sensitivity of the membrane-bound ATPase is...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Volotovskij J,Risi S,Dose K

更新日期：1976-03-30 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：:In this study, temporal variations of indoor radon concentrations in Bulgaria were investigated. The radon concentrations were measured by nuclear track detectors as part of the Bulgarian National Survey, performed in the dwellings of 28 regional districts. The detectors were exposed through a year in two consecutive ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ivanova K,Stojanovska Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained pain relief following radon spa therapy in patients suffering from chronic painful diseases has been well described. But still, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. We conducted the prospective and explorative RAD-ON01 study which included 103 patients who suffered from chronic painful musculo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kullmann M,Rühle PF,Harrer A,Donaubauer A,Becker I,Sieber R,Klein G,Fournier C,Fietkau R,Gaipl US,Frey B

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After ingestion or inhalation of radionuclides, internal organs of the human body will be exposed to ionising radiation. Current risk estimates of radiation-associated cancer from internal emitters are largely based on extrapolation of risk from high-dose externally exposed groups. Concerns have been expressed that ex...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Little MP,Hall P,Charles MW

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue (F450) and green (F530) leaf fluorescence were studied together with the red chlorophyll fluorescence (emission maxima F690 and F735) during light-induced chlorophyll fluorescence induction kinetics (Kautsky effect) in predarkened leaves of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.). The intensity ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Stober F,Lichtenthaler HK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the application of a simplified Bayesian method for estimation of doses from a mixed field using cytogenetic biological dosimetry, taking as an example neutron and gamma radiation emitted from the MARIA nuclear research reactor in Poland. The Bayesian approach is a good alternative to the common...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Słonecka I,Łukasik K,Fornalski KW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionizing radiation can produce adverse biological effects in astronauts during space travel. Of particular concern are the types of radiation from highly energetic, heavy, charged particles known as HZE particles. The aims of our studies are to characterize HZE particle radiation induced biological effects and evaluat...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Stewart J,Ko YH,Kennedy AR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00