abstract：:In spite of a well-known relationship between exposure to radiation and increased risk for cancer development, the biological mechanisms involved in radiation-induced carcinogenesis remain poorly documented. Various hypotheses are discussed in this paper. It appears that radiation cannot be directly responsible for th...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Sabatier L,Lebeau J,Dutrillaux B

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of Green's function has played a fundamental role in transport calculations for high-charge high-energy (HZE) ions. Two recent developments have greatly advanced the practical aspects of implementation of these methods. The first was the formulation of a closed-form solution as a multiple fragmentation perturb...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shinn JL,Wilson JW,Schimmerling W,Shavers MR,Miller J,Benton EV,Frank AL,Badavi FF

更新日期：1995-08-01 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 potential of heavy ion therapy for clinical use in cancer therapy stems from the biological parameters of heavy charged particles and their precise dose localization. Biologically, carbon, neon, and other heavy ion beams (up to about silicon) are clinically useful in overcoming the radioresistance of hypoxic tumor...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Castro JR

更新日期：1995-03-01 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 effect of supplying three different stable iodine levels (about 70, 80, and 160 mg day-1) in the daily feed of four dairy cows has been studied for the excretion pattern of 131I. None of the different treatments had a statistically significant effect. A mean milk transfer coefficient of 0.015 +/- 0.001 d l-1 was d...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Voigt G,Schotola C,Probstmeier G,Röhrmoser G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is usually assumed that sparsely ionizing radiation produces randomly distributed DNA breakages. This seems to be supported by the finding that in some DNA fragments single-strand scissions occur uniformly at all nucleotide sites, regardless of sequence. We performed experiments on two DNA fragments of about 300 bp...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Barone F,Belli M,Mazzei F

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Autoradiography is an effective tool for the imaging of radionuclide distributions in various samples. In sophisticated applications with special preparation and development of sample-emulsion combinations and subsequent grain counts it can be highly quantitative, but it requires carefully controlled conditions and a ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kellerer AM,Chen J,Roos H

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Age-specific and cumulative mortality rates are presented for different cancer sites from 1970 until 1988 for the 11 individual federal states of West Germany (FRG). Sex- and age-specific evaluations are performed and temporal and regional trends in mortality from different cancer sites are revealed. In the FRG there ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kvasnicka J,Kvasnicka E,Schnadt H,Geuer W,Havers W,Breckow J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new device for the measurement of complete laser induced fluorescence emission spectra (maxima near 690 and 735 nm) of leaves during the induction of the chlorophyll fluorescence is described. In this the excitation light (cw He/Ne laser, 632.8 nm) is switched on by a fast electro-mechanical shutter which provides a...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Szabó K,Lichtenthaler HK,Kocsányi L,Richter P

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Heavy charged particle therapy, started at research institutes three decades ago, is now on the verge of entering a clinical phase. This phase has resulted from the evolution and development of various beam delivery systems and techniques with existing research accelerators and with newly built accelerators. For the f...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Blattmann H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined, by the fluorescent halo assay, alterations in the nucleoid structure (structure formed from cells under mild lysis conditions: in non-ionic detergent Triton X-100, 0.0005% and 1.5 mol/l NaCl) of L5178Y (LY) cell sublines which had been untreated, treated with reducing/chelating agents (beta-mercaptoethano...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kapiszewska M,Szumiel I,Lange CS

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:The naturally synchronous development of early mouse embryos was exploited to address the question, whether micronuclei require a mitosis for expression or whether they can be expressed in the same cell cycle, in which exposure to X-rays or caffeine took place. Experiments with 2-cell and with 4-cell embryos showed th...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Müller WU,Schlusen I,Streffer C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work we have investigated the possible interaction between Bleomycin (B) and UV light or hyperthermia (HT) in the induction of lethal events in diploid yeast populations in the stationary phase of growth. UV and B acting as single agents determine sigmoid survival curves. The combination of UV + B produ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Barrios E,Candreva EC,Nunes E

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：: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

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：:A method which allows growth of normal human tissue to be studied in vitro is used to investigate possible interactive effects of radiation and environmentally important carcinogens on oesophageal and urothelial cell growth. Carcinogens chosen were selected for their known or suspected effect on the oesophageal mucosa...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Mothersill C,Cusack A,Seymour CB

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:Large lung sections of humans of advanced adult age revealed a markedly nonuniform retention pattern of dense anthracotic particle aggregates, with an impressive accumulation of this material along pulmonary lymphatics, i.e. the deep (peribronchial), septal (perivenous) and superficial (pleural) networks. Conversely, ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Cottier H,Meister F,Zimmermann A,Kraft R,Burkhardt A,Gehr P,Poretti G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:125I incorporated in DNA is known to be exceptionally toxic. Values of D0 range from about 40 to about 90 decays for survival of mammalian cells. The effectiveness of 125I in DNA with respect to the induction of breaks of the DNA strands, however, appears to be comparatively low. The numbers of strand breaks per energ...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Tisljar-Lentulis G,Schneeweiss FH,Feinendegen LE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, persisting radiation-induced growth retardation of hematopoietic tissue suggested that at least part of the surviving stem cells are genetically injured. Additional mitotic stress some time after the radiation insult might remove injured stem cells, thus improving the overall recovery of the irradiated bone m...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： von Wangenheim KH,Peterson HP,Cronkite EP,Feinendegen LE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells surviving radiation injury may carry defects which contribute to long-term effects. The ratio of 125-iododeoxyuridine (IUdR) uptake into spleens of lethally irradiated recipient mice between day 3 and day 5 after cell transfusion revealed reduced proliferative ability (PF) of spleen seeding cells in paralle...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： von Wangenheim KH,Peterson HP,Feinendegen LE

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thorough studies of 28 water bodies, predominantly lakes from the younger moraine area of Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany but also some peat bog waters in Niedersachsen, Northern Germany and lake Balaton in Hungary, showed the presence of at least six redox systems: NO3-/NO2-; NO3-/NH4+; NO2-/NH4+; So/HS-; So/H2S...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： David R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of the S/S variant of the L5178Y murine leukemic lymphoblast, the photoreceptor cell of the rabbit retina and the lenticular epithelium of the rabbit to heavy ions (20Ne, 28Si, 40Ar and 56Fe) are described and discussed primarily from the standpoint of the need for a comprehensive theory of cellular radiosen...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Lett JT,Cox AB,Bergtold DS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microwave irradiation has been shown to decrease the input resistance of snail neurons. In this study, we examined the role of extracellular calcium in triggering the microwave-induced enhancement of membrane conductance. Two sets of experiments were conducted. In the first set, nerve cells were superfused using Ringe...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Arber SL,Lin JC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxic cytotoxic effect of chlorpromazine towards E. coli B/r was observed to be dependent on temperature of incubation and irradiation. Increasing the temperature of incubation from ambient to 37 degrees C followed by irradiation revealed that the organisms showed radiosensitivity of a magnitude which was two to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Shenoy MA,Singh BB

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：: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：:The fluorescent intercalation complex of ethidium bromide with DNA was used as a probe to demonstrate damage in the base-pair region of DNA, due to the action of superoxide radicals. The O.2- radical itself, generated by gamma-radiolysis of oxygenated aqueous Na-formate solutions, is rather ineffective with respect to...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Prütz WA

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:For studies on cell membranes, mice were exposed to mixed neutron + gamma reactor-radiation in the range of total doses from 0.5 to 4.5 Gy. Changes in functional activity of plasma membranes of erythrocytes, platelets, and lymphocytes were followed by a lectin-binding technique at various intervals afterwards. The amo...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Kubasova T,Antal S,Somosy Z,Köteles GJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of iteratively reweighted least squares for the regression analysis of Poisson distributed chromosome aberration data is reviewed in the context of other fit procedures used in the cytogenetic literature. As an application of the resulting regression curves methods for calculating confidence intervals on do...

journal_title：Radiation and environmental biophysics

authors： Merkle W

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：: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

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