abstract：:In order to provide fundamental data required for dose evaluation due to environmental exposures, effective dose conversion coefficients, that is, the effective dose rate per unit activity per unit area, were calculated for a number of potentially important radionuclides, assuming an exponential distribution in ground...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Saito K,Ishigure N,Petoussi-Henss N,Schlattl H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inter-comparison of five models designed to predict the effect of ionizing radiation on populations of non-human wildlife, performed under the IAEA EMRAS II programme, is presented and discussed. A benchmark scenario 'Population response to chronic irradiation' was developed in which stable generic populations of m...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vives I Batlle J,Sazykina TG,Kryshev A,Monte L,Kawaguchi I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the work presented here, changes in haematopoiesis of mice (B6129SF2/J) were studied 1 year after their whole-body exposure to a dose of 7 Gy (72% of mice survived). The irradiated mice were compared with non-irradiated younger (4 months of age) and older (16 months of age) mice. There was a significant increase in...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vávrová J,Sinkorová Z,Rezáčová M,Tichý A,Filip S,Mokrý J,Lukášová E

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:To explore the expression level and the role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-γ) in radiation-induced heart injury in a rat model, thirty-two Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into three groups (the control group, the 15-Gy irradiation group and the 18-Gy irradiation group). Experimental animal...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Gao S,Wu R,Zeng Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：: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：:The effects of single pulses and multiple pulses of 7 MV electrons on micronuclei (MN) induction in cytokinesis-blocked human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs) were investigated over a wide range of dose rates per pulse (instantaneous dose rate). PBLs were exposed to graded doses of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 Gy of single el...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Acharya S,Bhat NN,Joseph P,Sanjeev G,Sreedevi B,Narayana Y

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main purposes leading botanists to investigate the effects of ionizing radiations is to understand plant behaviour in space, where vegetal systems play an important role for nourishment, psychological support and functioning of life support systems. Ground-based experiments have been performed with particle...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： De Micco V,Arena C,Pignalosa D,Durante M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most frequent secondary malignancy following radiotherapy of patients with bilateral retinoblastoma. This suggests that the Rb1 tumour suppressor gene might confer genetic susceptibility towards radiation-induced osteosarcoma. To define the contribution of the Rb1 pathway in the multistep process o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Gonzalez-Vasconcellos I,Domke T,Kuosaite V,Esposito I,Sanli-Bonazzi B,Nathrath M,Atkinson MJ,Rosemann M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High steady-state transcriptional activity is essential for normal mitochondrial function. The requisite transcription rate is satisfied in part by high copy number of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). In the present study, we analyze mtDNA copy number by real-time PCR in nucleated blood cells from control mice and mice expo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Evdokimovsky EV,Ushakova TE,Kudriavtcev AA,Gaziev AI

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the estimation of radiation doses to organisms, concentration ratios (C ( R )s) of radionuclides are required. In the present study, C(R)s of various elements were obtained as analogues of radionuclides for algae, molluscs, and crustaceans, in eight estuarine areas around Japan. The elements measured were Na, Mg, ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Takata H,Aono T,Tagami K,Uchida S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extensive programme of experiments on transfer of radionuclides to aquatic species was conducted in the former USSR starting from the early 1950s. Only a few of these studies were made available in the English language literature or taken into account in international reviews of radionuclide behaviour in marine eco...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Fesenko S,Fesenko E,Titov I,Karpenko E,Sanzharova N,Fonseca AG,Brown J

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:C57Bl6-lacZ animals were exposed to a range of low dose-rate simulated solar particle event (sSPE) radiation at the NASA-sponsored Research Laboratory (NSRL) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Peripheral blood was harvested from animals from 1 to 12 days after total body irradiation (TBI) to quantify the level o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Chang PY,Doppalapudi R,Bakke J,Wang A,Menda S,Davis Z

更新日期：2010-08-01 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 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：:Beginning in 1950, people living on the banks of the Techa River received chronic low-dose-rate internal and external radiation exposures as a result of releases from the Mayak nuclear weapons plutonium production facility in the Southern Urals region of the Russian Federation. The Techa River cohort includes about 30...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Krestinina L,Preston DL,Davis FG,Epifanova S,Ostroumova E,Ron E,Akleyev A

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Total body Irradiation (TBI) is often used for conditioning, prior to bone marrow transplantation. Doses of 8-14 Gy in 1-8 fractions over 1-4 days are administered using low dose rate external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). When necessary, consolidation EBRT using conventional doses, fractionation and dose rate is given. T...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Nevelsky A,Bar-Deroma R,Kuten A

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：: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：:Several proteins are known to form foci at DNA sites damaged by ionizing radiation. We study DNA damage response by immunofluorescence microscopy after microirradiation of cells with energetic ions. By using microirradiation, it is possible to irradiate different regions on a single dish at different time-points and t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Greubel C,Hable V,Drexler GA,Hauptner A,Dietzel S,Strickfaden H,Baur I,Krücken R,Cremer T,Friedl AA,Dollinger G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the process of developing a new dosimetry system for atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DS02), an intercomparison study between (152)Eu and (36)Cl measurements was proposed, to reconcile the discrepancy previously observed in the Hiroshima data between measurements and calculations of thermal neutron ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Hoshi M,Endo S,Tanaka K,Ishikawa M,Straume T,Komura K,Rühm W,Nolte E,Huber T,Nagashima Y,Seki R,Sasa K,Sueki K,Fukushima H,Egbert SD,Imanaka T

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The objective of the present work is to apply the plasma clearance parameters to strontium, previously determined in our laboratory, to improve the biokinetic and dosimetric models of strontium-90 ((90)Sr) used in radiological protection; and also to apply this data for the estimation of the radiation doses from stron...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Li WB,Höllriegl V,Roth P,Oeh U

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:About a century ago, Conrad Röentgen discovered X-rays, and Henri Becquerel discovered a new phenomenon, which Marie and Pierre Curie later coined as radio-activity. Since their seminal work, we have learned much about the physical properties of radiation and its effects on living matter. Alas, the more we discover, t...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Feinendegen L,Hahnfeldt P,Schadt EE,Stumpf M,Voit EO

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Fluence spectra at several ground distances in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are provided along with associated fluence-to-kerma coefficients from the Dosimetry System 2002 (DS02). Also included are transmission factors for calculating expected responses of in situ sample measurements of neutron activation products such as (...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Egbert SD,Kerr GD,Cullings HM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of approaches have been proposed to estimate the exposure of non-human biota to ionizing radiation. This paper reports an inter-comparison of the unweighted absorbed dose rates for the whole organism (compared as dose conversion coefficients, or DCCs) for both internal and external exposure, estimated by 11 o...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Vives i Batlle J,Balonov M,Beaugelin-Seiller K,Beresford NA,Brown J,Cheng JJ,Copplestone D,Doi M,Filistovic V,Golikov V,Horyna J,Hosseini A,Howard BJ,Jones SR,Kamboj S,Kryshev A,Nedveckaite T,Olyslaegers G,Pröhl G,S

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative cancer incidence data exist for various laboratory animal models, but little of this information is usable for estimating human risks, primarily because of uncertainties about possible mechanistic differences among species. Acceptance and utilization of animal data for human risk assessment will require a...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Burns FJ,Tang MS,Frenkel K,Nádas A,Wu F,Uddin A,Zhang R

更新日期：2007-06-01 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

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 biophysical characteristics of heavy ions make them a rational source of radiation for use in radiotherapy of malignant tumours. Prior to radiotherapy treatment, a therapeutic regimen must be precisely defined, and during this stage information on individual patient radiosensitivity would be of very great medical ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Jianshe Y,Xigang J,Wenjian L,Zhuanzi W,Guangming Z,Jufang W,Bingrong D,Qingxiang G,Linda W

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiological impact assessment for flora and fauna requires adequate dosimetric data. Due to the variability of habitats, shapes, and masses of the non-human biota, assessment of doses is a challenging task. External and internal dose conversion coefficients for photons and electrons have been systematically calculate...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Ulanovsky A,Pröhl G

更新日期：2006-09-01 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